2014 DoD Budget

scoutpilot said:
The Army will be initiating retention boards for captains in YGs 07-12. Now instead of not getting resident ILE, the bottom portion of each year group will be sent packing.
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The USMC has been doing something similar for the past couple years. After officers have a certain amount of observed FITREP time, their packages get sent to a career designation board that determines whether or not the Marine Corps will let them stay in.
In some MOSs (especially the combat service support side), the CD rate is like 45%.
 
LineInTheSand said:
It would look odd to have a commander working for the CO, who is also a commander, so the commander who was selected for captain wears the captain shoulder boards and collar devices, while still receiving his O-5 pay until he is ACTUALLY promoted to O-6.
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Why is this odd? The CO is the CO regardless of rank. The Navy aviation community has been doing this for decades in their squadrons. The XO has already been selected to be the next CO and both are CDRs. It's been working pretty well for them.
 
KPEngineer said:
Why is this odd? The CO is the CO regardless of rank. The Navy aviation community has been doing this for decades in their squadrons. The XO has already been selected to be the next CO and both are CDRs. It's been working pretty well for them.
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Maybe not odd on a 1000 person vessel, it IS odd on a 76 person vessel.

My 210' ship had an O-5 CO position. The XO was an O-4. The OPS and EO were both O-3s. The rest of the wardroom were O-2s and O-1s with a CWO mixed in.

You can believe an O-5 (a senior officer) is viewed differently than an O-4, if for no other reason than "that's the way it is".

Probably more importantly is in commands with joint operations, where throwing an O-5 in with a bunch of O-6s would put that O-5 at a disadvantage (much in the same way the USCG's vice commandant having 3 stars puts him at a disadvantage with the other service vice chiefs.)

So, if they're been selected for promotion, and it makes sense. they can be frocked.

I won't even get into what I think of XOs becoming COs of the same commands...
 
I am hoping a rising economy can absorb a lot of these veterans who are subject to the cuts. They really deserve it.
 
NorwichDad said:
I am hoping a rising economy can absorb a lot of these veterans who are subject to the cuts. They really deserve it.
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That'll restart the whole cycle I think. Once the economy gets good people will start leaving to chase other opportunities, and then bonuses, recruitment, and retention rates will begin to rise.
 
SamAca10 said:
That'll restart the whole cycle I think. Once the economy gets good people will start leaving to chase other opportunities, and then bonuses, recruitment, and retention rates will begin to rise.
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Good point, similiar to 90s cycles. The economy is really rebounding in some of parts of the country, we just need it to rebound in all the parts. A lot of those ROTC college juniors and seniors will probably face an entirely different environment when it comes their time to leave or stay in the military.
 
NorwichDad said:
Good point, similiar to 90s cycles. The economy is really rebounding in some of parts of the country, we just need it to rebound in all the parts. A lot of those ROTC college juniors and seniors will probably face an entirely different environment when it comes their time to leave or stay in the military.
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I'm holding my breath.
 
NAVY - it looks like some carriers will be staying pierside for a while. All lined in a row right next to each other in Norfolk. Common sense to idle and bunch our capital ships together to save money. We have done that before, in December 1941.

For the Navy, the budget cuts will affect the carrier fleet and its attendant strike group fleets and aircraft squadrons. The Navy will continue to maintain a single deployed carrier strike group presence in the Pacific and one in the Middle East region.
 
DS was nervous last night as a MSI AROTC. Thankful for scholarship opportunity but cognizant to plan for what happens in three years. Plan a through plan g.

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kinnem said:
Not sure I buy this but if people are floating it, then it becomes a possibility. These balloons get floated for a reason. Seems like anything might be possible in this environment.

http://www.defenseone.com/management/2013/09/amos-marines-could-go-even-smaller-120000/70556/
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Sounds kind of interesting actually. Kind of refocuses the few & the proud on what they've traditionally done best. And leaves the protracted engagement "set-piece" stuff for the Army... again what they do best. Right?

On the surface, sounds kinda smart... maybe. But that's just a view from an outside. The experts might think otherwise of course.

On a simlilar note, I always wondered why the Army doesn't organize all infantry around the Stryker brigage concept. Mobility, connectivity, scaleability.
 
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