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http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=120825
That is an ouch, and maybe something to think about when choosing this path.
I would suggest to every candidate in every branch to start googling and understanding how sequestration was not just 1 yr., but 10 yrs in total for the DoD budget.
I would look to see how small of a bump, because according to this article the Army is taking a 26% reduction if the Hill can't come to agreement and fix the DoD shortfall.
By the end of fiscal 2014, the Army will have significantly degraded readiness, as 85 percent of active and reserve brigade combat teams will be unprepared for contingency requirements, he said.
From fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2017, as the Army continues to draw down and is restructured into a smaller force, its readiness will continue to degrade and modernization programs will experience extensive shortfalls, the general added.
“We'll be required to end, restructure or delay over 100 acquisition programs, putting at risk the ground combat vehicle program, the armed aerial scout, the production and modernization of our other aviation programs, system upgrades for unmanned aerial vehicles, and the modernization of air defense command-and-control systems, just to name a few,” Odierno told the panel.
Only in fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2023 will the Army begin to rebalance readiness and remodernization, the general said, but this will come at the expense of significant reductions in the Army’s number of soldiers and its force structure.
The Army will be forced to take further cuts from a wartime high of 570,000 soldiers in the active Army, 358,000 in the Army National Guard and 205,000 in the Army Reserve to no more than 420,000 in the active Army, 315,000 in the Army National Guard and 185,000 in the Army Reserve, the general said.
This represents a total Army end-strength reduction of more than 18 percent over seven years, a 26 percent reduction in the active Army, a 12 percent reduction in the Army National Guard and a 9 percent reduction in the Army Reserve, he explained, adding that it also will cause a 45-percent reduction in active Army brigade combat teams.
That is an ouch, and maybe something to think about when choosing this path.
I would suggest to every candidate in every branch to start googling and understanding how sequestration was not just 1 yr., but 10 yrs in total for the DoD budget.
I would look to see how small of a bump, because according to this article the Army is taking a 26% reduction if the Hill can't come to agreement and fix the DoD shortfall.