Big Army
The rush from readiness
The Army Times reports that the Army is accelerating their draw down by two years. It will result in the elimination of 10 more brigade combat teams (BCTs). What was supposed to be a four-year process to cut the Army’s end strength by as many as 80,000 soldiers, inactivate 10 BCTs and reorganize the remaining […]
Time running out for new ink
Remember when the threat of new gun control laws cleared off shelves of firearms and ammunition earlier this year? Well, the same principle applies to new Army regulations forbidding certain tattoos according to The (Raleigh) News & Observer as soldiers line up to get their “grandfathered” ink before the new Army regulations kick in in […]
Army Secretary priorities
I was just talking with TSO the other day about John McHugh, the Army Secretary. I was pretty clear that I thought he was a moron. Well, Country Singer sends me ammunition to bolster my opinion; I guess my first question to Secretary is; do you know there’s war going on somewhere? That war isn’t […]
Back to the Future?
The Army Times is reporting that the Army may temporarily assign a rather large number of soldiers to “installation support” duties, in some (I’d guess most) cases outside their normal MOS. These functions are currently being performed for the most part by contractor support personnel. Specific roles planned for this temporary detail of soldiers are […]
AFN cancels sports for the troops
Twist sends us a link to Stars & Stripes which reports that the Armed Forces network has cancelled sports programming to troops overseas because of the government shutdown. The American Forces Network, reduced to just a news channel this week by the government shutdown, says it has no plans to screen football, baseball or other […]
Army pays criminals $16m in 2010-2012
Chief Tango sends us a link from the Associated Press which reports that the Army paid $16 million to deserters and folks who were AWOL during the 2010 – 2012 period. Auditors found that commanders weren’t filling out paperwork on absent soldiers in a timely manner, so the orders to stop pay weren’t being processed […]
Army wastes $14 million on new rifle program
The Washington Times writes about the Army’s search for a new battle rifle that it didn’t want or need to replace the M4, with which the Army was perfectly happy because Tom Coburn made them. The tale of the replacement search for the M4 carbine rifle — the preferred weapon of soldiers in Iraq and […]
Your Tricare surplus at work
We wrote a few months ago about the Department of Defense raiding the $770 million from our surplus Tricare premiums for other things while they were jacking up our premiums. Well, you’ll be happy to know that, despite the sequester and the cut backs in spending, your money is going to a good cause – […]
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