[puppypusher]

If those cuts go through the Navy is going to lose a lot of experienced seaman.

[gspurlock]

These guys are the backbone of the Navy. This is scarier than the purging at the top.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Are they being cut on a seniority basis? Or is Gordon Ramsay going to come and run a reality TV competition where they cut a few each week?

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

I guess this purge means the NSA is finally done going through each and every one’s Emails, phone calls, etc., to isolate the hardcore patriots for 0bama’s hit list.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Enlightened1]

The butchering of the military continues.

[I cannot think of a name]

Sorry, but elections have consequences.

America you elected this anti-American, communist, liberal piece of trash - twice! When we are left with a shambles of a military that could get its ass kicked by Monaco, Zero will have accomplished his ultimate goal.

Hopefully I'll be dead and gone by then, and all the under thirties that voted for this imbecile can live with the consequences.

[Red Badger]

The world is such a peaceful place now that they aren’t necessary..........................

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[jch10]

Then who will run the Navy?

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[I want the USA back]

I wonder why our fearless leader is castrating the military.

[Busko]

The Coup d’etat continues. This adminstrationis gutting our military.

[4rcane]

I bet those axed are gop donors. Obama look thru the gop donor list and fired them first

[hosepipe]

Obama has been throwing monkey wrenches into the military machine from day one..
When you have a TRAITOR as President.. what you gonna do?..

So far....... NO under ground movement has been detected..
All of Washington D.C. is a VICHY GIVERNMENT... <<— NOW!..

[RinaseaofDs]

Who’s actually going to run the Navy without the chiefs?

They are the ones that actually makes it all work. Decapitate the Navy, it would still work. All you need is the chiefs.

Why not whack a few admirals instead?

[X Fretensis]

Actually, the 8000 number is not the total being cut. 8000 chiefs who are eligible for retirement will have their service records reviewed. No quota for forced retirements has been assigned to the review board. Criteria for possible forced retirement are 1. notation of significant problems in evaluations 2. evaluations below 2.99, 3.two or more physical fitness test failures, 4 moral or dereliction such as detachment for cause. The Navy has held such review boards several times in the last few years. Of 30,500 chiefs service records reviewed by these boards, a total of 1,381 chiefs have been forced to retire. This is 4.48 percent dismissal rate. Looking back over my 25 years in the Navy, I can recall 4 or 5 percent of CPOs, I worked with deserved to have the anchors ripped of their collars and their asses booted down the gang way.

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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[sten]

to be replaced by ‘appropriately aligned’ political types

[Myrddin]

Most of my life my dad was XO or CO. Destroyer Marshall(XO), Destroyer Tender Prairie (XO), Communications ship Arlington (XO/CO), Naval Station San Diego (XO). He always reminded me that "the chiefs run the Navy". They are the skilled middle management layer with "hands on" experience. Dad spent time as the port 5" gunnery officer on USS Iowa during the Korean conflict and later as engineering officer on other vessels before I was age 4.