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2024-12-18 -Land of the Free

The Army is too top-heavy: Surplus generals, swollen staffs, and excess headquarters drain headcount and resources from warfighting units

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 A lot of staff is because someone is unwilling to make command decisions and seeks CYAWP. It's sustained by an institution that is unwilling to punish failure or outright violation of the UCMJ by officers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-18 06:51|| 2024-12-18 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 “…enhance the well- being…..”??
Tell that to the troops around the country whose eating facilities are shut down with fast food or commissary their only options. Not all have wheels.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2024-12-18 07:54|| 2024-12-18 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ A particularly onerous betrayal of the soldier, closure of army dining facilities has been going on for decades.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-12-18 07:58|| 2024-12-18 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 All government entities turn into jobs programs.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-12-18 08:54|| 2024-12-18 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 It's also concentrated on too few major bases, multiple single points of failure.

That's why they changed the names.
Seems like there's more of them.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-18 09:58|| 2024-12-18 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 All government entities turn into jobs programs.

That was one argument for the draft in the 50s, to remove a good number of young men from the labor market for 2 years in order to play with the employment statistics. Unfortunately, when you have a hammer, everything starts to looks like a nail (foreign inventions).

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-18 10:05|| 2024-12-18 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Lists are being made...

Pete Hegseth says he hasn't heard from West Point since employee 'error' denying his acceptance

Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-18 10:33|| 2024-12-18 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 suspect the same problem in the Navy and Air Force

also, too many O-6 and O-5 in staff positions

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-12-18 13:21|| 2024-12-18 13:21|| Front Page Top

#9 On the plus side, they know everybody at the cocktail party,

Posted by ed in texas 2024-12-18 13:29|| 2024-12-18 13:29|| Front Page Top

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