The ‘new’ plan is on the street to cut the military…
And it cuts the Army to PRE-WWII levels!!!
And closes commissaries, cuts housing and other pay freezes/cuts/delays
And THIS statement is pure Bulls**t…
“Personnel costs reflect some 50% of the Pentagon budget and cannot be exempted in the context of the significant cuts the department is facing,” Defense Department spokesman Adm. John Kirby told the Journal. “Secretary Hagel has been clear that, while we do not want to, we ultimately must slow the growth of military pay and compensation.”
Full article HERE.
The administration has decided to go full bore against the military since it’s not ‘buying’ any votes for the Dems, and the large percentage of military members do not vote Dem. I’m betting we’ll see all those $$ go directly to entitlements, just like was done in 2012, rather than go back to the Treasury…
And the personnel costs are STILL below 30% according to separate studies by both MOAA and NCOA…
Just listened to Hagel’s briefing, the BIG hit is to personnel and families… that is ONE way to shrink the military, made it unpalatable and unaffordable to serve… And the JCS ‘approved’ this???
Well, we know Dempsey drank the koolaid… So he’s going to be in lockstep with the administration…
What happened to peace through ‘strength’??? That got us through the fall of the USSR, because they simply could not compete/go against us…
Of COURSE it will go for entitlements — entitlements and FREE CHEESE for votes. No other way.
A politician knows no other way to function. Corruption is the air they breathe.
BZ
The Perfumed Princes of the Five-Sided Puzzle Palace on the Potomac. Dempsey and Hagel and the lot are guilty of aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States.
I was serving during the Jimmy Carter fiasco. Saw the same exact thing happen then as well, although it was not as overtly political as this bunch of asshats inside the Beltway are unabashedly making it.
What the administration and Capital Hill bozos better understand is that there is NOTHING more worrisome or fearsome to an elitist ruler than a pissed off warrior who is out of a job.
–AOA
Old Joint Chiefs of Staff smoked cigars and drank whiskey.
New Joint Chiefs of Staff don’t smoke and drink the Kool-Aid.
Or as Bull Halsey said “I never trust a fighting man who doesn’t drink and smoke”.
Actually, I doubt all the money saved/absconded from the Military Budgets will go to free cheese.
The Mangy Mongrel in charge will push a good portion of it to the Domestic Defense Force he wants to build through the DHS.
+1 BZ – now I need to calm down before my BP spikes.
If obama were a manchurian candidate, I can’t imagine him doing anything else other than what he is doing to the military.
Yup. “Lest We Forget,” huh?
Chop and cut the military with gay abandon, inject gays, degenerates, and women into combat and command…and when the chit hits the fan, pray like hell we can pull a magic rabbit out of our ass like we did in WW2.
I wonder if it isn’t just as well, NFO? Don’t get mad…but think about this: how can any military, even America’s – expect to win with a CIC like Obama? Giving the leftists a say in military affairs will almost ensure a defeat every single stinkin’ time!
I hate to say it but our boys might be better off unemployed than answering to a poltroon like Obama and his band of democrat scum. They deserve better leaders…and so do the rest of us that live outside the slums of Chicago and Detroit.
That is one way to assure Republican votes. But there is plenty of borrowed money to send billions to our terrorist neighbors this will be financing our overthrow.
This is the plan. Propose something so draconian that you can back off, cool the opposition, who will then sigh with relief that it isn’t quite so bad, and still get your cuts to spend on entitlements.
Did you see where they are elevating 24 Distinguished Cross recipients to Medal of Honor status? Three living, and from WWII through Vietnam. All “minorities” who may, or may not, have been discriminated against. Taking absolutely nothing away from the courage of these men, does anyone think Team Obama gives one half of a rats ass about “justice”? Politics, pure and simple. Maybe they all deserve the MOH, who am I to say the don’t, but I think it is a political stunt. Sorry, NFO, for such a long comment on your blog.
Darn, I hate it when ALL the good comments are taken.
BZ/Rev- Yep…
Old AF- Agreed!
AOA- Just got out of a meeting where the Carter era came up… and NOT in a positive light…
Gerry- Point
Cookix- You could be right too… sigh
Opus- Pretty much true…
GLen- The issue is when we get over-run, people killed because they ‘know’ we can’t/won’t respond…
CP- That too!
WSF- No problem, and yes it IS political theater…
Ed- No problem… 🙂
You know, I kicked over a chair when I read this. I believe I am slowly starting to under how Pop feels every April 30th and whenever someone mentions Ho Chi Mihn City.
Bastards all.
SPE- Agreed… sigh
Next, they’ll be lining up our aircraft on the tarmac, just like before Pearl Harbor.
Found again by JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Primed NOT to repel and defend – from the inside.
gfa
We need another ‘Revolt of the Admirals’.
It was my understanding that the commissary is operated on a cost plus percentage basis.
This means that the government does not bear any cost. If that is true then this action is punitive and is being done for spite.
Quell surprise.
Al Cooper
MSGT USAF RET
Where and how bad will be the next Pearl Harbor?
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.” – Ronald Reagan
gfa- They already are… sigh
SoCal- Only about three good ones left… dammit
Al- That is what ‘I’ though too…
Rick- Shudder, don’t EVEN want to think about it…
Stretch- He ‘did’ have an excellent point, not anymore…
Not to be a Jerk but the medal reviews were ordered by Congress in the 2002 National Defense Authorization Act.
But yes I’ll agree Obama having anything to do with it is pure politics on his end.
Clublights- Agreed.
I got nuthin’. A few days ago, I commented that things were sounding a lot like the sea stories I heard from guys who survived the ’70s. Well, here we are – deja vu all over again. In 1941 and 1942, Pearl Harbor, Bataan, and Kasserine Pass cost us thousands of brave men. We learned nothing from it, and in 1950, we paid again in Seoul, Pusan, and Kunu-ri.
So, once more, we’ve forgotten the lessons we paid for in blood. Barry, Chuckie, Harry, John: when the inevitable happens, every one of my boys and girls who doesn’t make it home, their blood is on your hands!
I’m a bit late to the party on this one. Let me say that it is comforting to know that others are spitting mad over this.