{"id":66915,"date":"2016-07-17T08:38:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T12:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66915"},"modified":"2016-07-17T08:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T12:56:47","slug":"army-to-dump-lrs-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66915","title":{"rendered":"Army to dump LRS companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Army has nine Long-Range Surveillance companies, three active-duty and six National Guard, and now that they have to do things like train people who can’t do the job those people want and they have to spend money on healthcare that doesn’t improve combat readiness, they want to cut those combat assets so they can afford to culturally diversify the force instead. From Military.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Commanders identified operational LRS units as a low priority, he said, adding that the decision to cut LRS companies was aided by “extensive computer models using combatant commander plans to determine what the Army needs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, well, that makes sense – computer models are telling commanders to slash combat units. The Army is betting on drones – but drones only give commanders a two-dimensional look at the battlefield while LRS team provide a three-dimensional view. There is a contextual benefit of having experienced combat troops observe the enemy instead of an airman in a swivel chair thousands of miles from the scene.<\/p>\n

It’s more important, though, that the Army spends millions of dollars picking a pistol, picking a new uniform pattern every few years, diversifying the force with deviants, spending money to train people who can’t meet the standard. We can’t cut the flag officers’ transportation, kitchen or household staffs, let’s cut combat assets instead.<\/p>\n

If there were two brain cells left in the Pentagon, they’d keep the National Guard companies in order to retain a cadre of folks with the expertise to train up some companies before the next war, but, well….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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