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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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To: Nachum
Good for him if it is done halfway right. Get rid of all the bloated DoD Oxygen Thieves that just create more bureaucracy. I would say keep the knife away from combat troops, but hell, I think the Army divisions could lose a 1 general each and still be effective. Someone said there are more Admirals in the Navy than there are ships. I think a 50% cut of Flag officers may be a better goal, but 20% is a good start.

And I nominate Allen West to decide whom to cut. A pissed off retired Lieutenant Colonel with no love for the bass rather than Flag Officers trying to protect themselves.

21 posted on 07/16/2013 8:09:40 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: Nachum

Ronald Reagan: “Peace through Strength.”

Barack Obama: “War through Weakness.”

Count on it. Some things are inevitable.

‘Si vis pacem, para bellum.’


22 posted on 07/16/2013 8:17:46 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Si vis pacem, para bellum.')
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To: Nachum
in the next 6 years they will cut a miniscule amount. No they will not. The top Generals and Civilians, by definition, are about to retire, so of course the OneBigAssMistakeAmerca crowd will call each retiree a cut, and Viola! They announce they have cut big brass by X amount...just more smoke and mirrors.
23 posted on 07/16/2013 8:20:26 PM PDT by Polyomega
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To: Nachum

Well, that’s another way to win the military over to supporting the marxist muzzie coup when the rest of us go Egypt.

////sarc


24 posted on 07/16/2013 8:35:51 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Nachum

Hagel was brought in to dismantle the military and make sure that what is left is run by Obama’s homo bootlickers.


25 posted on 07/16/2013 9:07:57 PM PDT by Iron Munro (They Old. That's Old School People. We In A New School, Our Generation)
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To: Nachum

and just wtf have general occifers done for we the sheeple lately, huh?????

.....EXACTLY !!!!!
-Dick G
*****


26 posted on 07/17/2013 4:32:38 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Nachum

Most of the commentors on this thread clearly do not understand how generals and admirals (flag officers) are selected, promoted, and employed. The career life expectancy of flag officers is 6 - 10 years. Officers are selected for flag rank after 20+ years service in the lower ranks and they will serve another 6 to 10 years in the flag ranks before retirement. A select few may serve for as many as 15 years, but they are very much the exception.

Since these cuts are to be made by 2019, this change won’t affect currently serving flag officers, it will affect today’s Lieutenant Colonels, Commanders, Colonels, and Captains. They will be selected for flag rank at slightly lower rates.

This will also not affect the disturbing trend to politically compliant flag officers. These men and women are selected for advancement and assignment after they have become flag officers, not before. Once they demonstrate their willingness to carry the political torch, they move ahead in the flag officer hierarchy. This carbuncle on our military is not going away.

The cuts are a good thing, but do not represent a serious program of reform, in fact it’s probably an indication of the opposite.


27 posted on 07/17/2013 5:38:47 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316

me arse bleeds fer ‘em...

;

Semper Chesty/Georgie/Etc.!
*****


28 posted on 07/17/2013 6:02:11 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Nachum

Stalin would have just given them a one-way ticket to the Lubyanka.


29 posted on 07/17/2013 6:03:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Iron Munro; Nachum

” Hagel was brought in to dismantle the military and make sure that what is left is run by Obama’s homo bootlickers.”

My firm belief as well.


30 posted on 07/17/2013 11:03:24 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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