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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that he has ordered a 20% cut in the ranks of the Pentagon’s top military officers and senior civilians. Beginning in 2015, and completed by 2019. Well, as we used to say: speed kills. The estimated 4,000 jobs at stake represent not only a fifth of those working at the highest levels of the U.S. military, but also represent about one-fifth — of 1% — of the U.S. military’s total full-time workforce. Hagel’s warning shot of budgetary pain to come marks the first time he has revealed action called for by the Strategic Choices...

A Pentagon task force is proposing the largest overhaul of the military retirement system in 50 years that will do away with a traditional pension system, opting instead for a 401(k)-style contribution program

A Pentagon task force is proposing the largest overhaul of the military retirement system in 50 years that will do away with a traditional pension system, opting instead for a 401(k)-style contribution program. Under the newly proposed Defense Business Board plan, all troops would receive yearly retirement contributions if they served at least 20 years -- a stipulation of the existing system. The money, however, would not vest until service reached at least three to five years and would then be payable at retirement age. If personnel left before that three- to five-year mark, the time served would be rolled...

BREAKING...Just Announced on Greta's Show on FOX. The word has been received by FOX from the Wall Street Journal that Congress has scrapped the plans to purchase the eight new jets. You can see the earlier article in the WSJ regarding the dissention in Congress over this planned spending here: Opposition Emerging to House's Jet Spree The news broke about 15 min. ago, and details are not posted on FOX's website as yet. However, Greta congratulated the American Public and the politicians who opposed this spending. The original request was "...for $220 million to buy four passenger jets, including two...

DURAGI, Afghanistan -- Early morning, and 14 U.S. soldiers stand in a semi-circle for a mission briefing. Four Humvees, engines running, rumble beside them. "We're going to Warshallah today," Army Capt. Sam Karr, 28, of Manhattan, Kan., tells his platoon. "I guess it has, like, 200 bad guys in it. That's nothing, dudes -- we've got 14, so we're good."

The China threat: Another warning signal Friday, November 23, 2007 How many more dire warnings must there be for the United States to realize communist China is a grave national security threat? The bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has issued its fifth disturbing report about national defense since 2001. China now is the biggest threat to American technology secrets. Advances by the Chinese military are surprising U.S. intelligence officials. The Defense Department could be outsourcing the manufacturing of weapons and military equipment to Chinese factories. In an astonishing admission, the Pentagon confessed it did not even have the...

Welcome to Sanity Island. It's been a busy and memorable day. Today, President Bush led the Pentegon's Farewell to Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld. Full story here. President Bush, right, congratulates outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, second from left, during a farewell ceremony in his honor at the Pentagon, Friday, Dec. 15, 2006. Vice President Dick Cheney, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman, Gen. Peter Pace, second from right. applaud. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) President Bush also Honored Medal of Freedom Recipients in the East Room. Fellow recipients of the 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom applaud as President George...

FORT CARSON, Colo. - The Army dismissed a cowardice charge and filed a lesser count against an Army interrogator who sought counseling after he saw the body of an Iraqi man cut in half by American fire. Staff Sgt. Georg-Andreas Pogany was charged with dereliction of duty, according to a statement released Thursday afternoon by Fort Carson officials. A military court hearing set Friday for Pogany was canceled. The new charge was filed by the company commander after military judges dismissed the cowardice charge, officials said. "He believes that this charge is most appropriate to address the alleged misconduct based...