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US Army plans to cut 40,000 troops over next two years
Fox News ^ | 07/08/2015

Posted on 07/08/2015 7:31:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The U.S. Army is planning to cut more than 40,000 troops over the next two years, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News Tuesday.

General Martin Dempsey announced at a Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing Tuesday that dwindling resources was a major factor in the decision to cut the number of active troops from 490,000 to 450,000.

In addition to the troop cuts, 17,000 Army civilian employees will be laid off in a plan that is to be formally announced on Thursday.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: army; cuts; military
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1 posted on 07/08/2015 7:31:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Might as well release them all.


2 posted on 07/08/2015 7:32:38 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: SeekAndFind

Operation Scorched Earth in full gear.


3 posted on 07/08/2015 7:34:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

Alex, I will take,
“What will happen in the Pentagon to
those Patriots who refuse to murder Americans
and their allies for the undocumented First Moslem impostor?


4 posted on 07/08/2015 7:35:43 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: SeekAndFind

The military is so screwed.


5 posted on 07/08/2015 7:37:19 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I am so screwed.)
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To: mbarker12474

The glorious benefits of Recovery Summer!


6 posted on 07/08/2015 7:38:04 AM PDT by Kharis13 (That noise you hear is our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: SeekAndFind

You know damn well the 40,000 will be selected by determining who will defend the constitution. Soon, we will have a military who will defend the party instead. Some of it is already there.


7 posted on 07/08/2015 7:38:31 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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To: SeekAndFind

No doubt welfare entitlements will be increased.


8 posted on 07/08/2015 7:39:40 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Lazamataz
IN THE MEANTIME, JUST ACROSS THE PACIFIC...


9 posted on 07/08/2015 7:40:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Kharis13
WEE ARE STILL WAY AHEAD OF CHINA, BUT THEY KNOW THIS AND ARE PLANNING TO CATCH UP...


10 posted on 07/08/2015 7:41:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Hmm, the "Army" plans to cut?

Might this really come, however obliquely, from the WH?

One would love to know the full story.

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11 posted on 07/08/2015 7:42:19 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

12 posted on 07/08/2015 7:43:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
This is going on while there is a push to let invaders have a pathway to citizenship if they join the military. How long will it be before the US military is replaced by a foreign legion and the rest outsourced to private contractors?

The global elite are building an army over which local populations have no control. Yes, I really believe that.

13 posted on 07/08/2015 7:44:08 AM PDT by grania
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s party like it’s 1938...


14 posted on 07/08/2015 7:46:34 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d be OK with giving S. Korea the bomb, and then bring those troops home.


15 posted on 07/08/2015 7:49:07 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: SeekAndFind

Is the pentagon going to be turned into a mousqe


16 posted on 07/08/2015 7:49:38 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama will be gone before the Troops


17 posted on 07/08/2015 7:50:16 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: molson209

That’s the only good news in this. In less than 2 years Osama will be gone.


18 posted on 07/08/2015 8:01:54 AM PDT by McGruff (Eat a snickers...)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
. >>Soon, we will have...
 
"It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
 
The first stage being "demoralization"..."

--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov
--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
 
 

19 posted on 07/08/2015 8:03:49 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: Seaplaner; flaglady47; mickie; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum; ExTexasRedhead; M Kehoe; Bob Ireland; ..
OF COURSE the proposed "cut" program emanates from the White House. It's another "in your face" from Obama, the America-hating, muslim-loving, legacy-striving peacenik.

If the general populace is FOR sustained American strength, FOR military superiority and FOR a well-planned defense of our homeland, you know that Obama was, is and will be AGAINST it.

His replacement flunkies, the current perfumed princes, yes-men and wusses in the armed forces Joint Chiefs and in the senior officer class, will go along with the cuts.

Obama's directives to the Army to "cut" is like financially-irresponsible schools cutting sports, bands, clubs and other popular programs just to stick it to the kids and parents grousing about the schools' high-spending and resultant higher taxes.

Obama hates the American public in general....and like a petulant school board, will set about to defund any programs the public views as absolutely necessary or vital to our country's well-being.

Leni

20 posted on 07/08/2015 8:08:05 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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