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2018-02-18 Government

Pentagon's New Deploy-or-Out Policy Could Separate Up to 286K

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-18 12:07|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 ...This has been a semi-secret for some years now, in that the world at large hasn't been aware of the problem, but the poor SOBs who have to keep going back sure as hell have known about it. I suspect too that there is going to be a thorough combing of emergency deployment plans so that there is NO question that if you are a single parent, there better be someone to take care of your child.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-02-18 12:25|| 2018-02-18 12:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Wilkie said there would be exceptions for pregnancies and the services would also be able to retain wounded troops who are cleared by medical boards.

Female privilege? Someone has got to take their place in the deployment. WAC era they were discharged. Then the brass said make it work. Then there was a classified Army IG report after Desert Storm on the number of females removed from theater when they turned up pregnant. Then the blow up when a theater commander said something along the lines of court martial (given that for all of military history, males who had inflicted wounds or injuries to avoid combat or danger where roughly treated). They insist on 'abortion on demand', so it's choice to make oneself non-deployable.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-18 12:26|| 2018-02-18 12:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Due to exceptions, the final number discharged over next five years will probably not exceed 125. Looks good on paper though.

Posted by Unaling Thuting1065 2018-02-18 13:54|| 2018-02-18 13:54|| Front Page Top

#4 No, the solution is to stop fucking deploying so often. WTF? We're not world police. We don't need to be everywhere. Bring the troops home. Close the bases. Spend the money on ourselves instead.

Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2018-02-18 13:59|| 2018-02-18 13:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Too many 'foreign adventures', yes, the downfall of empires is fiscal blood loss brought on by not knowing when to quit expanding.
On the other hand, histories of WW-1 talk about cavalry Majors unfit to ride horses (!) so they had to go to war in carriages. Also how much bureaucracy do we really need (Spoiler: less than the REMFs desire.)

Posted by magpie 2018-02-18 18:32|| 2018-02-18 18:32|| Front Page Top

#6 This is a good policy shift.
This has been one of my pet peeves.

Having ghost units in rear detachment full of profile ponies and non-deploy-ables.

Posted by newc 2018-02-18 21:23|| 2018-02-18 21:23|| Front Page Top

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