{"id":60784,"date":"2015-07-09T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60784"},"modified":"2015-07-09T08:41:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T12:41:20","slug":"army-to-announce-another-30k-reduction-in-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60784","title":{"rendered":"Army to announce another 30k reduction in troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we talked about the Army drawing down to four hundred and fifty thousand troops in the next two years, but according to the Associated Press<\/a>, that’s just the beginning. If the administration and the Congress can’t dismount from the sequestration pony, strength will fall another thirty thousand to 450,000 in the next few years;<\/p>\n

If a new round of automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, goes ahead, the Army says it will have to reduce even further, to 420,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n

Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, has said he can accept the planned reduction of 40,000 soldiers over the next two years, which the Army plans to implement by trimming the size of numerous units. The biggest cuts would be to an infantry unit at Fort Benning, Georgia, and an airborne infantry unit at Fort Richardson in Alaska. Each would shrink from about 4,000 soldiers to about 1,050, defense officials said Wednesday. Those details were first reported Tuesday by USA Today. The full plan for specific cuts is expected to be made public by the Army on Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The brigade (the 193rd Infantry Brigade) at Fort Benning was used as the round-out 3rd Brigade of the 24th Infantry Division when they deployed to Desert Storm, so reducing it to the size of a Battalion takes that out of the Army’s toolbox in case of an unplanned excursion, like Desert Storm where many units were cobbled together at the last minute.<\/p>\n

The Army complains that they can’t train and retain the force given the year-by-year funding from Congress, but it’s really not Congress’ fault entirely;<\/p>\n

It may not get any smoother anytime soon. Congressional Republicans are proposing to give President Barack Obama the extra billions he wants for defense in the budget year starting Oct. 1. But Obama says he can’t accept their plan because it maneuvers around spending caps in a way that does not also provide spending relief in non-defense areas of the budget. This portends a September showdown between Congress and the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the White House, is going to hold defense spending hostage to fund the domestic spending, you know, like they always do. Of course, this gives our enemies hope. I’m sure ISIS thinks that these domestic political maneuvers are the light at the end of their tunnel, much the way that they thought that they could win in Iraq in 2006 when Congress changed hands because of the anti-war rantings of Reid and Pelosi.<\/p>\n

When are Congressmen going to contribute their salaries and operating costs to the sequestration process? <\/p>\n

Thanks to Bobo for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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