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2006-01-29 Home Front: WoT

Budget to Call for Cuts In Military Reserves

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Posted by lotp 2006-01-29 18:32|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sounds like a "smart like a fox" move. Knowing that there is no way in hell Congress will pass these cuts.

Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-01-29 18:27|| 2006-01-29 18:27|| Front Page Top

#2 cutting vacant positions is an age-old bureaucratic defensive maneuver. The spots were unfilled and the $ spent elsewhere anyway....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-29 18:40|| 2006-01-29 18:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe more than that. Undoing the post-VietNam deliberate hobbling of the military which put key jobs into the reserves. ??

Posted by anon 2006-01-29 18:45|| 2006-01-29 18:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I gather that a lot of career Armed Forces people went to the Reserves when the Forces were downsized under Clinton... and a good many are choosing to re-up as Regular [Army/Marines/etc.], now that they can serve again. So at least some of those Reserves bodies aren't leaving at all, just being filed differently. ;-)

As for the unfilled slots, givenwhat's going on now, and what's likely to come in the near future, I'd personally much rather the Army concentrate on expanding it's trained fighting force, not on less-trained back-ups, however gung-ho. Of course, I am just a little civilian housewife, so perhaps I am not clear on the subtleties understood by certain members of Congress.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-29 22:35|| 2006-01-29 22:35|| Front Page Top

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