Posted on Nov 2, 2013

How do you feel about the military draw down?

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I understand that the military is drawing down but do you think that we are going too far to get rid of too many Soldiers?  I know that we have to weed Soldiers out that do not meet standards, but being retention NCO, I'm seeing Soldiers that are above and beyond and we're saying "No, you can't reenlist due to shortages in slots to reenlistment."  What are your feelings on this?

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SGM Matthew Quick

Posted >1 y ago

As a Retention NCO, you should know that Soldiers are not currently being denied reenlistment due to 'maxes'. Get with your Career Counselor for specifics.

The Army will be keeping good leaders and those leaders need to make the tough decisions about quality Soldiers...the Army cannot afford to keep all our Soldiers.

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SSG Laureano Pabon

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<p>This sounds like the Grand Rudman Law in my time. Something that started out as an early out program then it became involuntarily.</p><p>Here's a little about it: </p><p>http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_did_the_Grand_Rudman_Act_of_1985_call_for</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><div class="pta-link-card"><div class="pta-link-card-picture"><img src="//rxs.answcdn.com/includes/images/icons/a-icon.png"></div><div class="pta-link-card-content"><div class="pta-link-card-title"><a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_did_the_Grand_Rudman_Act_of_1985_call_for" target="_blank">What did the Grand Rudman Act of 1985 call for?</a></div><div class="pta-link-card-description">Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions</div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="pta-box-hide"><i class="icon-remove"></i></div></div>

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SSG Laureano Pabon

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interesting part about all this down sizing is it can get to this point:

1. perhaps many service men and women who's intentions are to stay in for 20 years to retire, may not get this goal accomplished, because of decisions made with out making them aware of it first.

2. If and only if, Number 1 is true, are these service member prepared to transition to civilian life, 2 months notice is not enough time to prepare for what they will face in the coming years in their life.

3. If the government wants to they can raise the retirement time from 20 years to 30 years for those who may have served under 10 years.

4. If retiring after 30 years you will not get your retirement pay until your in your 70's.

Here I'm stating what could happen only not what's going to happen. It happened in my time and it can happen again.

At times history has a tendency to repeat its self, as many of you seen.

My advice is to expect the unexpected and be ready for any thing.

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MAJ (Join to see)

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The Army has 520K on active duty, and is required to get down to 480K. The problem is that while the Army talks a big game about culling the top talent, it seems to revert to some sort of mediocrity. This is what happens when we expect the same career path for everyone within a specific community. (Read a BN CO or CSM bio; they look like every other BN CO or CSM bio within the same community.) Because of this, it's difficult to find who truly are the best of the best; instead, we go for the type of person whom we've known were the best in the past. This means that everyone wants to look the same if they want to be successful, thus a regression to the mean. This isn't unique to the Army, however. This is what happens in most bureaucracy's which promote from within.

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