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2024-02-28 Government Corruption
Army Takes A Chainsaw To 24,000 Positions In Response To Recruitment Shortfalls
[Daily Caller] The Army is cutting thousands of empty positions as the ongoing recruiting crisis has robbed the service of enough people to fill those roles, according to an Army document published Tuesday.

After a "rigorous" year-long review of the Army’s existing force structure, service officials determined the number and purpose of positions comprising the force did not match up with the changing security environment, the white paper stated. Officials justified cutting 24,000 roles that have been left empty as the Army deals with its worst-ever recruiting crisis as helping ensure the service only plans to assign and deploy the people it has available, cutting down on strain and allowing for more realistic planning.

The Army is "over-structured, meaning there are not enough soldiers to fill out existing units and organizations," the document stated. It emphasized the cuts are coming to "authorizations (spaces)" not "individual soldiers (faces)."
Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-28 02:56|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11146 views ]  Top

#1 If you cannot meet your established recruitment, Physical Training (PT), educational (MOS skills testing), or substance abuse goals and standards.... then lower or eliminate your goals and standards.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-28 03:01||   2024-02-28 03:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Kinda like reducing crime by firing police and changing laws.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-28 04:30||   2024-02-28 04:30|| Front Page Top

#3 And here I was wondering about Army regulations about visible tattoos and potential MS-13 enlistees.
Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-28 04:37||   2024-02-28 04:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Let me guess: some of these recruits satisfied all requirements except for being white racists.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-28 04:41||   2024-02-28 04:41|| Front Page Top

#5 From the stories I've read, it seems the only thing being slashed is a not of nonsense in the org chart.
Posted by M. Murcek  2024-02-28 05:55||   2024-02-28 05:55|| Front Page Top

#6 

Simply put.
The New Normal will never be viable Military force.

Looking down the road.
According to available data (2024), we have about 4,163,000 Illegals in the USA of Military fighting ages 18 to 34.

The US Military Troop strength (2022)

Posted by NN2N1 2024-02-28 06:46||   2024-02-28 06:46|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ General Dynamics, Lockheed, or some other mega-contract holder will hire the migrant MAMS and assign them to gov't military contracts. Enlistees from Red States, who needs them. Over time, or when those contracts end, the MAMS will be absorbed into civilian Federal employment positions.

(Some will be discreetly absorbed by the intelligence community to assist with special 'nation building' initiatives.)

There's money to be made and votes to be had here.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-28 07:04||   2024-02-28 07:04|| Front Page Top

#8 
Also I am willing to bet the US Army's 365/200's guidelines have been adjusted to retain more border line recruits.
Posted by NN2N1 2024-02-28 07:15||   2024-02-28 07:15|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Forts, Camps, and Posts will have to be re-named. The Presidio of Escobar? Fort Ortega? Joint Facility Che ?
Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-28 07:21||   2024-02-28 07:21|| Front Page Top

#10 ^"No se permiten perros ni anglos."?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-28 07:26||   2024-02-28 07:26|| Front Page Top

#11 

Ft. Obama
Posted by NN2N1 2024-02-28 07:47||   2024-02-28 07:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Never a consideration of ending overseas bases while the border here is overrun. You had one job - protect the homeland.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-28 08:02||   2024-02-28 08:02|| Front Page Top

#13 /\ "Global reach" permits global access and control.

* The operative words in the above short sentence contains seven letters, but you knew that of course.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-28 08:06||   2024-02-28 08:06|| Front Page Top

#14 True story

Posted by badanov 2024-02-28 08:44||   2024-02-28 08:44|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Men compartmentalize their brains. Do not interrupt when focused upon a task.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-28 08:50||   2024-02-28 08:50|| Front Page Top

#16 What happens to the budget for those positions? Pa off the national debt?
Posted by Bobby 2024-02-28 08:56||   2024-02-28 08:56|| Front Page Top

#17 The New Normal will never be viable Military force

As we have seen with naval collisions, air force balloon outings and army barracks beatings.

Soon launches will be the first line of defense.
If Biden can get it up.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-28 12:21||   2024-02-28 12:21|| Front Page Top

#18 I'd suggest doubling down on the Recruitwoment Theory and high brass cross dressers and doggie costumes to show just how serious you take your business with the lives of your soldiers. Threatening to send recruits to die in a Ukrainian nuke war is a bold move.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-28 12:58||   2024-02-28 12:58|| Front Page Top

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