Big Army
Hate to Say I Told You So . . . .
The Army has announced that more than 20 central boards meeting next year will also consider soldiers for involuntary separation, according to the Army Times. All senior NCO promotion boards meeting next year will also serve as QSP/QMP screening boards. For those unfamiliar with the difference: the Army’s QSP (Qualitative Service Program) is intended to […]
Big Army fails SGT Trevino
The Washington Times tells the story of SGT Reynaldo Trevino who enlisted after high school because of the events of 9-11-01. If you read the article (and disregard the usual misuse of military terms by journalists) you’ll read about a stellar career of a young sergeant who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and as […]
Soldiers; Army doesn’t love me back
The Army Times reports that a recent survey says that a little less than half of soldiers says the Army isn’t as committed to them as they are to the Army. This is a 6 percent increase — among troops in both components — since 2010, according to the report. Lt. Gen. David Perkins, commanding […]
Pentagon car dealership
Bobo sends us a link to a Washington Post article about the Pentagon IG which has found some new waste, fraud and abuse in which the Pentagon is involved – buying cars they don’t need; The IG found “511 excess nontactical vehicles, including 89 vehicles driven less than 1,000 miles,” meaning many of the cars […]
Pentagon to cut stars
Stars & Stripes reports that the Defense Department says it’s serious about cutting the number of flag officers in their ranks. The Navy announced late Tuesday that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus had approved a plan to “reduce, eliminate or consolidate a net of 35 Navy flag officer positions” at the one-, two- and three-star ranks. […]
Gina Gray; Arlington whistleblower’s ordeal
Dana Milbank in the Washington Post tells the story of Gina Gray, an actual whistleblower, as opposed to the pretend whistleblowers we’ve read about in the media lately. Gray was a fairly new employee at the Deparment of Defense who tried to tell her superiors about the mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery and she was […]
Dempsey complicit in destroying the military
Chief Tango sends us a link to Stars & Stripes which reports that Marty Dempsey is doing his damnedest to make sure that military service costs service members more than it’s worth; He called the current retirement system unsustainable. “Manpower costs are becoming overwhelming,” he said. “They will overwhelm modernization and training if we are […]
US taxpayers funding the insurgency in Afghanistan
The Christian Science Monitor reports that building projects in Afghanistan, designed to prop up the government there after our withdrawal in 2014 and funded by the US taxpayers, the few of us who are left, are seemingly stuffing money in the pockets of the Taliban, the Haqqani Network and al Qaeda; It turned out that […]
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