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Hagel orders 20 percent cut in Pentagon top brass, senior civilians
Washington Post ^ | 7/16/13 | Craig Whitlock

Posted on 07/16/2013 6:32:43 PM PDT by Nachum

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that he has ordered a 20 percent cut in the number of top brass and senior civilians at the Pentagon by 2019, the latest attempt to shrink the military bureaucracy after years of heady growth. Hagel’s directive could force the Pentagon and military command staffs to shed an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 jobs. That’s a tiny percentage of the Defense Department’s 2.1 million active-duty troops and civilian employees, but analysts said it would be a symbolically important trimming of the upper branches of the bureaucracy, which has proved to be resistant to past

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1 posted on 07/16/2013 6:32:43 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 07/16/2013 6:33:43 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

The politically correct are safe.


3 posted on 07/16/2013 6:34:12 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

cut the military but recruit homosexuals and cross dressers, try to get women in combat.


4 posted on 07/16/2013 6:36:59 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Nachum

Look it’s time to start speaking about something:

We are being sold out.

But it is happening by both sides. Both parties. Everyone.

China. American companies, buying Chinese produced goods. You name it.

America needs to bring back American production, and if American companies don’t bring it back then scr@w them.

I’m sorry but I’m getting a little bit miffed.

BRING BACK AMERICAN JOBS.

Now.


5 posted on 07/16/2013 6:37:37 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Nachum

I suspect the bureaucrat generals will be unaffected. The experienced field officers will be purged. Homosexuals and females will be promoted to fill the gaps leaving the actual reduction in numbers to the lower ranks.


6 posted on 07/16/2013 6:38:22 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's EcomT"ics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Nachum

More attempts to woo back the far left who are abandoning Obama over Snowden.


7 posted on 07/16/2013 6:38:48 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Nachum

Historically, these kinds of actions — the dismantling of our military — are followed by a war breaking out.


8 posted on 07/16/2013 6:40:50 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

How about we match that with a 20% cut in Michelle Obama’s staff, or vacation allowance?


9 posted on 07/16/2013 6:43:32 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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I suspect the bureaucrat generals will be unaffected. The experienced field officers will be purged. Homosexuals and females will be promoted to fill the gaps leaving the actual reduction in numbers to the lower ranks.

This.

10 posted on 07/16/2013 6:43:59 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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11 posted on 07/16/2013 6:45:08 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: LibsRJerks

They have to make room so they can hire more diversity trainers and lawyers.


12 posted on 07/16/2013 6:45:11 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: La Lydia

Patriots—be armed and prepared. The second revolution is brewing.

The tree of liberty needs to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.


13 posted on 07/16/2013 6:45:34 PM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: La Lydia

“Historically, these kinds of actions — the dismantling of our military — are followed by a war breaking out.”

Only this time it may not be overseas.


14 posted on 07/16/2013 6:46:12 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Nachum

OK. 20%. Let’s go with that. 20% across the board cuts throughout government. Every department.


15 posted on 07/16/2013 6:47:39 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Nachum

I despise Hagel, but a 50% cut in the number of Generals and senior civilians would be a pretty good start. Heck, maybe he could eliminate Southern Command entirely...


16 posted on 07/16/2013 6:48:38 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberals are like locusts...)
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To: manc

I think Hagel is a fool, but there’s plenty to cut in the pentagon. I have read that the Navy has more admirals than ships...


17 posted on 07/16/2013 7:02:47 PM PDT by wny
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To: Nachum

Fewer chiefs and more Indians is not a bad idea.


18 posted on 07/16/2013 7:11:56 PM PDT by entropy12 (Even tho Obama is now a lame duck, with 2014 House majority, he will be a dangerously socialist!)
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To: entropy12
Fewer chiefs and more Indians is not a bad idea.

Agreed! But, what's the catch?

I won't be satisfied that it's real until McCain howls bloody murder.

19 posted on 07/16/2013 7:44:49 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: Nachum

You could save tens of millions of dollars just by eliminating all the Under-Secretaries, Asst-Secretaries, and Deputy Secretaries of ,.... and their staffs.


20 posted on 07/16/2013 7:45:00 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The short list would be the list of all administration officials that are NOT pathological liars!)
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