Army Wants 485K Active-Duty Soldiers, the Force It Had on 9/11

[rangerrebew]

Army Wants 485K Active-Duty Soldiers, the Force It Had on 9/11
 
11 May 2021
Military.com | By Patricia Kime

The Army is focusing on supporting and maintaining an active-duty force of 485,000 -- the same size the service was on 9/11 but smaller than Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville previously said he wants.

Speaking with Acting Army Secretary John Whitley at a forum hosted by the Atlantic Council on Monday, McConville said they "have agreed … [that we're] not going to grow the Army above 485,000-ish with the resources that we're anticipating now."

Combined with Army Reserve and National Guard forces numbering slightly more than 500,000, it's a "million-person force" that serves as an "anchor" on which to base the service's planning and resources, McConville said.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/11/army-wants-grow-485k-active-duty-soldiers-force-it-had-9-11.html

[rangerrebew]

They are going to have to get really hot on the LGBTQ and female populations, then.

[GtHawk]

Should be interesting since White conservatives need not apply.

[mystery-ak]

They just never learn...we always have to go to war with the military we have at the time and our military pays the price of not being ready and equipped.