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Re: Hagel Plans to Downsize Army 

By: ribit in FFFT | Recommend this post (2)
Mon, 24 Feb 14 11:11 PM | 54 view(s)
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“You have to always keep your institution prepared, but you can’t carry a large land-war Defense Department when there is no large land war,” one Pentagon official said.

...since the Pentagon official isn't identified, we can safely assume that it is the Pentagon's permanent latrine orderly and likely not above the rank of pfc. The same irrational thought would say that we should not have a fire department unless something it burning.




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Hagel Plans to Downsize Army
By: clo in FFFT
Mon, 24 Feb 14 6:51 PM 		Msg. 61440 of 65535

Hagel Plans to Downsize Army

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is seeking to reduce the U.S. Army to a size unprecedented in recent decades, according to a report from The New York Times. Under his budget proposal, the Army force will be its smallest since before the World War II buildup. The Army would drop from a post-9/11 peak of 570,000 active-duty soldiers to less than 450,000. Also as part of the plan, an entire class of Air Force jets will be retired. “You have to always keep your institution prepared, but you can’t carry a large land-war Defense Department when there is no large land war,” one Pentagon official said.

Read it at The New York Times

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