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2024-05-14 -Land of the Free

US special ops teams must cut 5,000 troops over next 5 years amid push to recruit technical experts

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-14 00:09|| || Front Page|| [204 views ] Top

#1 First of all they can't recruit the manpower they need. Second, drone warfare has shown you need more in air defense then you've allocated for decades. Third, you're way over committed to foreign operations and sustainment. Fourth, you've allowed the homeland to be overrun while engaged in foreign adventures. You had one job - protect the homeland.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-14 08:09|| 2024-05-14 08:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Fenton [SpecOps Commandant] said a cut of about 2,000 personnel in special operations was ordered by the department about a year and a half ago, including about 750 in the Army. That was followed this year by a cut of 3,000 in Army special operations. The cuts are to be spread out across five years "So the real Army reduction in totality is almost 4,000, and the remaining 1,000 will come from the joint force, SEALs, Marine raiders, other Army units,” said Fenton.

Posted by Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-05-14 11:01|| 2024-05-14 11:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Doesn't square very well with all the tough talk from the Ukie lovers in congress about US boots on the ground there.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-14 11:21|| 2024-05-14 11:21|| Front Page Top

#4 air defense has long been where army careers go to die. It's boring, not shiny and nobody thinks it confers status.

Posted by Glaimp Johnson6651 2024-05-14 11:59|| 2024-05-14 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Countering drone swarm attacks likely won’t be kinetic but more directed emf or other signal disruption techniques. Certainly requires thinking well past the last war. Historically we don’t do that well.

Posted by Remoteman 2024-05-14 12:36|| 2024-05-14 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Manning (or womaning or they / theming) a FERF gun seems like a great job for recruits who can't meet even lowered PT requirements.

As long as they are truck mounted.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-14 12:44|| 2024-05-14 12:44|| Front Page Top

#7 HERF gun

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-14 12:44|| 2024-05-14 12:44|| Front Page Top

#8 ^@3 Murcek: Then again, they may feel that making a lot of operators employable on the open market is a winner for the Ukes. Because, if these guys are trained for one thing, ...
I'm wondering if the layoffs are centered on any particular language group. cause they do have different language groups that they're trained to work with.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-05-14 13:01|| 2024-05-14 13:01|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ If guys dumb enough to go there were RIFed, then it is a net win.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-14 13:03|| 2024-05-14 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 I think that amounts to about a 10% cut from current force levels.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-05-14 17:40|| 2024-05-14 17:40|| Front Page Top

#11 #10- meanwhile the number of those playing with joysticks at Nellis AFB increases exponentially.

Posted by Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-05-14 19:46|| 2024-05-14 19:46|| Front Page Top

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