Army Fires Officers After Ordering Them to Move

[Vigilante]

Would be better to see 5000 IRS scumbags get the boot!

Fox ^

The Army last week began notifying about 1,100 captains that they will be purged from the ranks. The same fate is awaiting about 500 majors, who beginning this week will be told their active-duty careers are over. They're among nearly 2,500 officers and NCOs who will be involuntarily separated this year as part of an ongoing drawdown of forces. ... some officers who were let go are scrambling to find a home, as well as a job. Thankfully for the captain who's expecting his first child, his landlord is allowing him and his wife to continue to rent the house...

 

[September]

This sucks...

 

[JoeB131]

Here's the part Vagisil Left out.

After growing in size to 570,000 soldiers in 2008 at the height of the war in Iraq, the Army has less than 520,000 soldiers today and is on pace to shrink to 490,000 soldiers by next year. It's bracing for even further contraction driven by automatic budget cuts known as sequestration.

Wait. I thought you wingnuts said Sequestration was a good thing!

 

[Peach]

Here's the part Vagisil Left out.

After growing in size to 570,000 soldiers in 2008 at the height of the war in Iraq, the Army has less than 520,000 soldiers today and is on pace to shrink to 490,000 soldiers by next year. It's bracing for even further contraction driven by automatic budget cuts known as sequestration.

Wait. I thought you wingnuts said Sequestration was a good thing!

Mocking the OP is childish, these military families still face hardship(.)

 

[JoeB131]

Here's the part Vagisil Left out.

After growing in size to 570,000 soldiers in 2008 at the height of the war in Iraq, the Army has less than 520,000 soldiers today and is on pace to shrink to 490,000 soldiers by next year. It's bracing for even further contraction driven by automatic budget cuts known as sequestration.

Wait. I thought you wingnuts said Sequestration was a good thing!

Mocking the OP is childish, these military families still face hardship(.)

Yes, they do.

So do all the families who face hardship because of bad trade treaties or because some rich asshole decided to loot their company for the assets.

So what's your point?

 

[Peach]

Here's the part Vagisil Left out.



Wait. I thought you wingnuts said Sequestration was a good thing!

Mocking the OP is childish, these military families still face hardship(.)

Yes, they do.

So do all the families who face hardship because of bad trade treaties or because some rich asshole decided to loot their company for the assets.

So what's your point?

The thread is about the military officers kicked out after being told to move, you responded with an insult to the poster, I disagreed with your post

 

[JWBooth]

A smaller work force means a lesser demand for lower and middle management.
Are we to understand that (some) you believe we should keep these people on the payroll?

 

[SteadyMercury]

Yep, when you reduce the size of an organization you sometimes have to lay off middle management. The relocation is a completely different process and something that happens throughout the careers of most in the military, if you are selected a group to be cut (which is often based on their specialty more than anything else) there are always going to be some who were recently relocated.

Actually 2,500 is a pretty small number for an organization with over half a million.

Good luck to these soldiers, I hope they find success in their post-military careers.

 

[rightwinger]

Military drawdown is good news

Given reduced mission in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is long overdue

 

[Peach]

Military drawdown is good news

Given reduced mission in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is long overdue

With ISIS gaining ground in Iraq, it may be too soon. Note, MAY.

 

[rightwinger]

Military drawdown is good news

Given reduced mission in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is long overdue

With ISIS gaining ground in Iraq, it may be too soon. Note, MAY.

Bull crap

We have no business ramping up Iraq

 

[SteadyMercury]

With ISIS gaining ground in Iraq, it may be too soon. Note, MAY.

There is ALWAYS some world events somewhere that indicate the US military could be involved in a conflict in the future.

Are you suggesting that despite the end of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, where at one time deployed over 170,000 US troops, we shouldn't engage in a drawdown from 520k to 490k because of militants in Iraq and Syria?

 

[Peach]

Military drawdown is good news

Given reduced mission in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is long overdue

With ISIS gaining ground in Iraq, it may be too soon. Note, MAY.

Bull crap

We have no business ramping up Iraq

I hope you are correct, only time will tell.

 

[rightwinger]

With ISIS gaining ground in Iraq, it may be too soon. Note, MAY.

Bull crap

We have no business ramping up Iraq

I hope you are correct, only time will tell.

Unless Jeb Bush becomes President

Then we can expect another invasion.....that is what Bush's do

 

[Ravi]

Here's the part Vagisil Left out.

After growing in size to 570,000 soldiers in 2008 at the height of the war in Iraq, the Army has less than 520,000 soldiers today and is on pace to shrink to 490,000 soldiers by next year. It's bracing for even further contraction driven by automatic budget cuts known as sequestration.

Wait. I thought you wingnuts said Sequestration was a good thing!

 

[Katzndogz]

We don't need an effective military. It's not like we have any enemies to worry about. We are a peaceful country that doesn't fight.

 

[rightwinger]

We don't need an effective military. It's not like we have any enemies to worry about. We are a peaceful country that doesn't fight.

Our military is larger than the next ten militaries combined and eight of those ten are our allies

That is not effective?

 

[Katzndogz]

We don't need an effective military. It's not like we have any enemies to worry about. We are a peaceful country that doesn't fight.

Our military is larger than the next ten militaries combined and eight of those ten are our allies

That is not effective?

All the more reason to reduce our military. The next ten militaries can protect us. Maybe we can ask China to take care of us.

 

[rightwinger]

We don't need an effective military. It's not like we have any enemies to worry about. We are a peaceful country that doesn't fight.

Our military is larger than the next ten militaries combined and eight of those ten are our allies

That is not effective?

All the more reason to reduce our military. The next ten militaries can protect us. Maybe we can ask China to take care of us.

Hey Drama Queen...

We are talking 1600 Captains and Majors here

 

[Vigilante]

Our military is larger than the next ten militaries combined and eight of those ten are our allies

That is not effective?

All the more reason to reduce our military. The next ten militaries can protect us. Maybe we can ask China to take care of us.

Hey Drama Queen...

We are talking 1600 Captains and Majors here

I imagine that many, if not most of these so called CAREER OFFICERS went through West Point, with the specific desire to serve and protect this country. Now, we throw them to the side, like they did with the VA and our veterans, while all the while, the obomanation asks for $2.4 BILLION to integrate 95K ILLEGAL ALIENS into our society, many of which are gang members and criminals.

Wrong winger is a perfect example of what a subversives mindset is. Good work Wrong winger, fuck the people that have dedicated their lives to protect us, but let illegals in that can be BOUGHT OFF to vote with you scum....Pathetic little piss ant!