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Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases
« on: June 25, 2013, 08:08:58 pm »
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 AP/ June 25, 2013, 3:26 PM
Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases

WASHINGTON In a massive restructuring, the U.S. Army is slashing the number of active duty combat brigades from 45 to 33, and shifting thousands of soldiers out of bases around the country as it moves forward with a longtime plan to cut the size of the service by 80,000.

Officials say the sweeping changes would eliminate brigades at 10 Army bases in the U.S. by 2017, including in Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Colorado, North Carolina, New York, Kansas and Washington. The Army will also cut thousands of other jobs across the service, including soldiers in units that support the brigades, and two brigades in Germany have already been scheduled for elimination.

Officials provided details on the plans on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. An announcement is expected Tuesday afternoon. The Army is being reduced in size from a high of about 570,000 during the peak of the Iraq war to 490,000 as part of efforts to cut the budget and reflect the country's military needs as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan end. Additional reductions could be required if Congress allows automatic budget cuts to continue into next year.

While the cuts may have less impact at some of the Army's larger bases such as Fort Hood in Texas and Fort Bragg in North Carolina, they could be more painful for communities around some of the smaller installations such as Fort Knox, where currently only one brigade is based.

The other seven U.S. bases that will lose a brigade are: Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort Campbell in Kentucky, Fort Carson in Colorado, Fort Drum in New York, Fort Riley in Kansas, Fort Stewart in Georgia, and Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. Soldiers in the deactivated brigades would be transferred to other units.

The overall cut in size has been known for more than a year, and Army leaders have been working on how to manage the reduction, conducting local community meetings across the country and releasing an extensive study on the issue earlier this year.

Under the plan set to be announced Tuesday, the Army will increase the size of its infantry and armor brigades by adding another battalion, which is between 600-800 soldiers. Adding the battalion was a recommendation from commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan who said it would beef up the fighting capabilities of the brigades when they go to war.

A brigade is usually about 3,500 soldiers, but can be as large as 5,000 for the heavily armored units.

Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, has said he hopes to be able to cut the 80,000 soldiers through voluntary departures, without forcing troops to leave the service. But Army leaders have not ruled out forced reductions.

The cuts do not affect National Guard or Reserve brigades and units.

Officials said the decisions on the cuts were based on a variety of factors including required training resources, ranges, air space and infrastructure, as well as the need to put units near leadership and headquarters units.
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Re: Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2013, 08:30:21 pm »
Yeah...the military always gets hit the worse...politicians don't seem to care until they need them and then they can't figure out why they are unprepared for missions..
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Re: Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2013, 11:54:36 pm »
Not to worry. Valerie Jarrett says we're safer with openly homosexual troops.   :thud:
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Re: Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2013, 04:25:48 pm »
The left has to be ecstatic about this. They have been trying to destroy the military for  many, many years.


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Re: Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2013, 04:35:12 pm »
The left has to be ecstatic about this. They have been trying to destroy the military for  many, many years.
Indeed, leaving us defenseless and unarmed against whatever comes next.
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Re: Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2013, 05:58:54 pm »
He is swiftly destroying our military.
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Re: Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2013, 06:07:30 pm »
He is swiftly destroying our military.
He is destroying everything about this country swiflty. They must laugh themselves silly when they are behind closed doors.


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Re: Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2013, 12:05:34 pm »
Silently putting our troops in places we shouldn't be:

By: Diane Sori
 While some are being diverted yet again by the gay marriage issue, the Trevon Martin murder case (which was self-defense by the way), and yet another overpaid useless athlete being arrested for murder, we patriots are waiting with baited breath to hear what General Carter Ham had to say about the happenings at Benghazi….Benghazi…the ONLY so-called ‘scandal’ that can actually bring this miserable excuse of a president and his equally miserable administration down.

But while we wait for word of what General Ham said behind closed doors, real stealth maneuvers are going on by the Obama administration as he works to dismantle our military while placing our troops in harm’s way in places where we do NOT belong.  And he’s actually ‘aiding and abetting’ our enemies and rubbing America’s face in it in the process.

And the dismantling of our military starts with the recently announced elimination of at least 12 Army combat brigades (going from 45 to 33 brigades), the relocating of thousands of soldiers moving towards the objective of eliminating 80,000 troops now (from 570,000 to 490,000), along with 100,000 more active duty National Guard and Reserve soldiers in the near future, and by cutting $400 million in military construction projects. Using the excuse that he was forced into doing these cuts because of the mandated federal budget sequestration, Obama is targeting our military as he willingly, and I believe with malice, tries to turn our beloved America into a second rate military power.

But as he cuts back on funding for our military he will always find a way to help his muslim brethren, as silently and under the radar some of our troops are being transferred from Afghanistan into Syria, Jordan, and Egypt to aid the Muslim Brotherhood and the al-Qaeda backed Syrian rebels.

 And while Obama tries to hide these transfers from ‘We the People’ they are indeed going on. Case in point, it’s been over a month since family members have heard from or had any contact with their loved ones stationed at Camp Bastion (where our fighter jets, osprey, and all our big helicopters are based) and there has been little on the VMM-264 Black Knights page for quite some time. And even on Father’s Day families could make NO contact with the troops at Camp Bastion.

And why NO contact…so that the troops could silently pack up and transfer without raising the ire of family members back home who might question why we were getting involved in yet another muslim country. In fact, Secretary of State John ‘Swiftboat’ Kerry wants US airstrikes on the airfields under the control of Bashar al-Assad’s government forces, especially airfields supposedly used to launch supposed chemical weapons against rebel forces. But what he doesn’t say is that to do that the US would have to neutralize Syria’s air-defense system, an operation that would require 700 or more sorties…manpower equating into boots-on-the-ground.

Another fact, 900+ US military personnel, including a 700 member combat-equipped detachment (some staying on from previous joint military drills), are in Jordan ‘to bolster its defenses and prevent the Syrian civil war from spreading across the border’ so says the Jordanian press…and more are on the way. And just a few weeks ago two patriot missile batteries along with a squadron of 12 to 24 F-16 fighter jets were sent to Jordan from an ‘unspecified’ country in the Persian Gulf.

‘Unspecified’ country my eye…they came from the wind-down in Afghanistan and probably from Camp Bastion itself. So who does Obama think he’s kidding NOT only with this but with his claiming that we’re there to help with the Syrian refugees streaming into Jordan. Fighter jets and patriot missiles are NOT needed for that…I know it…you know it…and Obama knows we know it but could care less. ...

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