This guy (Obama bff Ayers)
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We'll see what 50 governors and 100 senators have to say about gutting the Air Guard . . . again.
This makes interesting reading (pdf): USAF Force Structure Changes: Sustaining Readiness and Modernizing the Total Force
Is this a result of the so called “Super Committee” not being able to come up with budget cuts?
(Although O is already calling for another debt ceiling increase.)
limit their ability to respond to multiple crises. /
What crisis? Marshall Law perhaps?
Howdy Doody is stepping up his campaign of destruction before the electuins. I feel it is going to get very ugly in the coming months.
Let’s see now, my last day on the job was last Friday, and my nephew is a young Air Force jet mechanic.
I’m starting to think Commandante Zero is making all this `hope and change’ personal ...
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
Moochelle “I Need 50K Worth Of G-Strings” Obama
Obama found something to cut from the budget and of course the Commie cuts the military budget instead of his food stamp program. The food stamp pResident.
This guy (Obama bff Ayers)
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“wars of the future”.....Wars against the rich, conservatives, Christians, traditional familes.......
Liberal "logic".
After reading the article, I'm not too concerned it's mostly about cutting back on the National Guard and repositioning assets. Even with the latest defense cuts over some 10 years, the budget will still allow the 2nd biggest expenditures to our defense, after HHS expenditures. Of course, HHS monies are outrageous. Still, I'm not really worried.
A huge part of our GDP goes into defense research, production, payroll, etc., and always will. Yes, even with the commies in the Legislature and the Executive branch, there are those who will not allow us to become defenseless.
Here's a happy thought: Think Trident submarines. No one knows where they are, and no one knows what their target package is. Yeah, I know, the Muslims don't subscribe to MAD because they just don't give a shit about themselves nor their children. But that will be resolved with other means - watch Israel in the coming year.
They're not doing any such thing.
They're slashing their our force structure to cut the DoD budget -- to "save money" so they can throw it away on tax-eaters, for votes.
It's just as Hackett et al. described in The Third World War, a Carter-era warning about what British and U.S. defense cuts were doing to the defensibility of Europe, and especially to deterrence.
As Hackett pointed out, the British played this "reorganization" game for 20 years and more, until the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) became almost a paper force without a real core. In the authors' war-gamed exposition, the Red Army sliced through the BAOR as if it were hot butter. It took an arc-light raid finally to stop the Red Army short of the Rhine.
Perhaps they are getting the military ready for war against the Tea Partiers, Chistians, Jews, etc.. Look who’s in charge.
BFL
One good thing about these cuts is that by proposing a new round of BRAC (base realignment and closure) and National Guard cuts, the Department of Defense is virtually guaranteeing major political pushback.
My experience with colonels and generals is they're usually very competent subject matter experts in their military specialty, but often are tone-deaf when it comes to politics. That's not a criticism — it's drilled into our uniformed personnel that politics is the job of the politicians, not the soldiers, and “stay in your lane” is not bad advice for someone wearing the uniform.
In this case, however, I wonder if the senior leaders are deliberately trying to make Obama’s plans for defense cutbacks a political nightmare that will never get implemented because even the liberal Democrats don't want their own local bases closed or National Guard units eliminated.
Time will tell.
Thanks Obama, disarm America and hand it over to your constituents in food stamps. If this pathetic clown gets four more years we are in deep crap. I’ll stop being picky and vote for any Republican to get him out of office.
In the 90s we had clinton’s decimating of the military as part of the end of the cold war peace dividend.
in the 21st century, we have what will be know as obama’s Surreneder dividend!
The Air Force said the service cannot absorb any further cuts in active duty forces because that would limit their ability to respond to multiple crises.
Overall, about 3,900 active duty, 5,100 Air Guard and 900 Air Force reserves would be cut in the next year.
Noting that senior defense leaders have said the planned $487 billion in budget cuts over the next 10 years will mean more reliance on the reserves, Guard association president, Retired Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett Jr. said this plan “reduces the Air Force’s ability to quickly respond to unforeseen contingencies in the future.”
Ok, let me get this straight: We are going to devastates the reserves and the Air National Guard to save money. BUT! Our rapid response plan is to rely on our Reserves and Ar National Guard units to fill the gaps. RIGHT?
Excuse me I have a headache from trying to figure this all out.
Hope and Change!
Let's be honest here.
The main reason our military is being decimated by Obama and the Democrats is so that the Community Organizer can hand out more "entitlement" checks, more welfare to fat breeders, more ca$h to illegals, more unemployment checks to the lazy for 99 weeks, and more EBT cards to undeserving scum.