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2023-10-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Pentagon Plans To Slash Thousands Of Troops From Army Special Ops Amid Recruiting Woes, China Threat

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-06 02:48|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top

#1 How about pulling troops from overseas locations and eliminating those commitments? Of course that would mean closing out a lot of command billets, aka general officer positions.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-10-06 06:55|| 2023-10-06 06:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Bad move that will produce miniscule savings. 'Big Army' obviously still hates them.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-06 07:43|| 2023-10-06 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 To be honest, we do have a shit-ton of SPECOPs running around. The number ballooned after 9/11 to deal with insurgencies and as long as we don't get into another one, we really don't need this many. Went from all together near 2 battalions to 5. We can cut back to 3.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-10-06 07:59|| 2023-10-06 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4
#3 To be honest, we do have a shit-ton of SPECOPs running around. The number ballooned after 9/11 to deal with insurgencies and as long as we don't get into another one, we really don't need this many. Went from all together near 2 battalions to 5. We can cut back to 3.
Posted by: DarthVader 2023-10-06 07:59

Lord Vader,

Absolutely right. This same thing happened after Vietnam - the SOF was expanded to the point where people who shouldn't have been there were let in. That's what they have to do now, and reinforce the old standards - we're gonna need 'em.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-10-06 08:09|| 2023-10-06 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Ergo, the SEAL PED testing.

They'll all move over to the PMC private security sector. That's what we need, a bunch of door-kickers on steroids.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-06 08:09|| 2023-10-06 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Very small percentage of total force. "High standards" and non-WOKE white majority is likely why they are being RIF'd....

Perhaps some remember the highly successful RIFs of the 70's.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-06 08:44|| 2023-10-06 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Agree w/5. OGA and leased help, wrong way to go. If that's all you've got, your shi* is very week.

Ask Vlad about details.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-06 08:58|| 2023-10-06 08:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Offer a lateral transfer into the BORTAC units in DHS Customs and Border Patrol. Perfect fit to then visit cartel staging area and leadership south of Otay Mesa and Brownsville and points much further south along the "Ho Chi Manuel Trail"!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-10-06 13:01|| 2023-10-06 13:01|| Front Page Top

#9 They are being RIF'd because of the Iron Law of Pentagon Budgeting: one third each of the budget buy goes to the Army, Navy and USAF because it makes for less bureaucratic infighting when the Pentagon goes to Congress -- notice that I didn't mention SOCOM.

Posted by magpie 2023-10-06 15:53|| 2023-10-06 15:53|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ except sometimes people forget that the Marine Corp is part of the Department of the Navy and that the National Guard got its own seat at the table.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-10-06 17:34|| 2023-10-06 17:34|| Front Page Top

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