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The politically correct are safe.
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.
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.
More attempts to woo back the far left who are abandoning Obama over Snowden.
Historically, these kinds of actions — the dismantling of our military — are followed by a war breaking out.
OK. 20%. Let’s go with that. 20% across the board cuts throughout government. Every department.
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...
Fewer chiefs and more Indians is not a bad idea.
You could save tens of millions of dollars just by eliminating all the Under-Secretaries, Asst-Secretaries, and Deputy Secretaries of ,.... and their staffs.
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.
Ronald Reagan: “Peace through Strength.”
Barack Obama: “War through Weakness.”
Count on it. Some things are inevitable.
‘Si vis pacem, para bellum.’
Hagel was brought in to dismantle the military and make sure that what is left is run by Obama’s homo bootlickers.
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.
Stalin would have just given them a one-way ticket to the Lubyanka.
