Obama to cut spending for special forces
The Army Times reports that the Obama Administration plans on cutting the growth of funding for special operations troops, despite the fact that they an integral cog in the robot-ninja-zombie Joe Biden strategy in the war against terror;
“SOF will be flat” across the 2015 budget plan’s five years, said one defense source with ties to the Pentagon and White House.
Another source, citing conversations with senior special operations officials, told Defense News that SOF funding will be “reined in.”
The coming proposal to slow funding for the highly lethal forces follows a decade during which special ops ranks grew substantially to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other missions against al-Qaida and similar groups.
We were told in 2009, when this administration was deciding whether to fully staff McCrystal’s surge in Afghanistan, that we didn’t need the 60,000 troops he requested because we could use special operations and drones to fill the gaps. The thinking was that, although spending for special operations was greater than for rank and file troops, we got a bigger bang for the buck, resulting from the increased training and advanced equipment. So, I guess we’re abandoning that savings benefit now.
We’ve seen operations increase, you know, with the bin Laden and al-Libi operations the most visible. So, the folks in Bizzaro World concur that this makes total sense.
They could make up for the funding cuts by drafting our phonies who pretend to be special operations into those missions, though.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
As long as cuts don’t involve AF1/Marine One/Army Limo & Presidential military cargo airlift assets (yeah Emperor & Moochelle need seperate planes & stuff also)…more recent threats about proposed cuts to personnel costs.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/22/us-military-to-unveil-plan-to-cut-personnel-costs/
“They could make up for the funding cuts by drafting our phonies who pretend to be special operations into those missions, though.”
I am laughing so hard it is hard to type!
Step one: cut SF spending
Step two: ?????
Step three: Profits!
One thing is for sure, and it’s that B. Hussein 0bama & Company are out to shit on the US Military and us Vets in any way they can, but GOD FORBID that they forgo any perk or luxury they desire!
@1 Devtun You hit it on the head there. The Emperor and The ever always stylish Moochelle can’t go without theirs.
Well al-Qaeda is on the run …
(sarc off)
Will the cuts affect the more equal than others crowd and their multiple aircraft use vacations?
Why is this no surprise?
No guys, there has to be some mistake here. Dear Leader promised he wouldn’t balance the budget on the backs of the military and we all know he’d neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvver lie…
Good.
This means more money will go into the fight for special, not equal, but special rights for the LBGT community.
Maybe to gay Soldiers?
Who knows.
No. Bigger parties at the White House and more expensive vacays. And don’t forget that ‘p’residential library.
It’s clear that Obama means to eventually disband the entire military, except for his “personal guard”, those that make him look good, fly HIS plane, and hold his umbrella.
We don’t need no stinkin’ military, we have drones!
Incoming bada-bada-jam training budget!
@12 Drones won’t question the legality of their orders (their operators might, but there’s ways around that). Drones won’t retire and write books exposing the embarrassing truth about the Glorious Leader’s ineptitude, apathy, and all around shitbaggery (their operators might, but there’s ways around that).
Plus, drone footage looks like a level on a Call of Duty game and won’t get much scrutiny to determine what actually happened, who was actually killed, etc. Somebody who’s actually there might obtain evidence that might make the Glorious Leader look bad, and then the LSM has to go to the trouble of spinning, suppressing, and ignoring it, Jay Carney has to open his mouth, etc.
Also, that spiffy new “Cyber Center of Excellence” ain’t gonna pay for itself.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2014-02-10/secretary-fort-gordon-will-be-pretty-busy-2024
BHO used them as a prop to help him get elected.
He has no further use for them.
Under the bus they go.
This guy is going to make Carter’s “hollow force” look like a juggernaut.
“Looks like rain. Get me a Marine.”
Back to picking up pine cones at Bragg.