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Top general: U.S. needs to rethink how much it cuts the Army – The Washington Post

Cuts currently planned to the U.S. Army may pose problems as it takes a leading role in security crises emerging around the world, including the fight against the Islamic State militant group and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, said the service’s top officer. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, chief of staff of the Army, said…

Cuts currently planned to the U.S. Army may pose problems as it takes a leading role in security crises emerging around the world, including the fight against the Islamic State militant group and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, said the service’s top officer.

Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, chief of staff of the Army, said he is “starting to worry about our end strength,” a reference to the number of soldiers in the service. The Pentagon said in February that it would cut the Army to between 440,000 and 450,000 troops, its smallest size since before World War II. But “the world is changing in front of us” since those statements were made, Odierno said.

“We have to have a national security debate, because there is too much going on around the world,” he said.

via Top general: U.S. needs to rethink how much it cuts the Army – The Washington Post.

Seriously, this whole article could have been written in 1974, just change the names and places.

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  1. Quartermaster

    And in 1974 you had Congresscritters that had a higher opinion of sewage than of the military. AT least the hatred is not as visceral as it was in ’74. Having been in during that time, I remember it all too well.

    When I went to flight school at Ft. Rucker in March of ’76, there was still something of a black cloud over the Army at the time. It really was depressing.

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  2. Esli

    Guess how effective we will be at retaining all of those that were already pink-slipped and have now started working their transition to civilian life. Having already been told once that they are the bottom tier, does anyone think that they would stay around?

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  3. Quartermaster

    Some would. Unfortunately, they would be the real bottom tier, and they know they are bottom tier.

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  4. Tarl

    The comments at the Post article are about as retarded as one would expect.

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