Posted on Sep 10, 2015
Did you hear that Pentagon Moves Ahead With HQ Staff Cuts?
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Did you hear that Pentagon Moves Ahead With HQ Staff Cuts?
RP Members what are your thoughts about these HQ Staff Cuts?
http://www.govexec.com/defense/2015/09/pentagon-moves-ahead-hq-staff-cuts-union-cries-fowl/120518/
With Congress and the White House still at loggerheads over the defense budget, Pentagon personnel strategists are proceeding with a more-severe version of an existing plan for cuts to headquarters staff—angering a major union in the process.
On Aug. 24, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work sent all military departments and services a memo titled “Cost Reduction Targets for Major Headquarters,” ordering preparation for a 25 percent cut in appropriations from 2017-2020 for all major Defense headquarters activities, the Office of the Defense Secretary, the Joint Staff, and the Defense agencies and field activities.
RP Members what are your thoughts about these HQ Staff Cuts?
http://www.govexec.com/defense/2015/09/pentagon-moves-ahead-hq-staff-cuts-union-cries-fowl/120518/
With Congress and the White House still at loggerheads over the defense budget, Pentagon personnel strategists are proceeding with a more-severe version of an existing plan for cuts to headquarters staff—angering a major union in the process.
On Aug. 24, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work sent all military departments and services a memo titled “Cost Reduction Targets for Major Headquarters,” ordering preparation for a 25 percent cut in appropriations from 2017-2020 for all major Defense headquarters activities, the Office of the Defense Secretary, the Joint Staff, and the Defense agencies and field activities.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Sure they can cut their HQ staff, if the White House and Congress will agree to do the same!
Sure they can cut their HQ staff, if the White House and Congress will agree to do the same!
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but are they cutting any of the work, or just the people?
rhetorical question...could you imagine owning a small landscaping business, and cutting 25 percent of your employees, but not cutting out ANY of your current customers??
rhetorical question...could you imagine owning a small landscaping business, and cutting 25 percent of your employees, but not cutting out ANY of your current customers??
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Having spent many years at the Pentagon, some of the 'work' was created to support staffing and not 'core' to the mission.
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SSgt Khanh Pham
I always thought it was a waste of assets anyway, all that military training to serve coffee. That position could have gone to the struggling waitress at hoooter.
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More of the current Administrations move to obtain funding for other pet projects will backfire.
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As much as we all always hate the higher HQ, a 25% reduction means a significant reduction in output also. And that does impact us at lower levels. Especially in terms of having to pick up tasks at lower levels that were being done without needing to see it at lower levels.
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Maybe this will cut down on the sprawl of meetings, planning cells, and briefings about powerpoint slide redesigns.
A man can hope, right?
A man can hope, right?
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1SG (Join to see)
I used to call the bevy of O-6s collected around the JHQ "A Flock of Seagulls"
I ran. I ran so far away...
I ran. I ran so far away...
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1SG (Join to see)
COL Mikel J. Burroughs, it isn't the briefings or the meetings or the slides, it is the meetings to prepare a decision brief to change the FORMAT of the slides that I can't stand. Holy hell!
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Not surprising COL Mikel J. Burroughs. It happens periodically - inherently government duties shift from more stringent to consulting out every few years and back.
When RIFs occur it is good that headquarters are included. One thing I rarely saw in my many years in the Pentagon was wisdom in staff reductions and thinking through who would do the primary missions of those positions being cut.
When RIFs occur it is good that headquarters are included. One thing I rarely saw in my many years in the Pentagon was wisdom in staff reductions and thinking through who would do the primary missions of those positions being cut.
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Not much faith in any real change reading language like "uniformly applied to headquarters elements throughout the department.” What we need is a wholesale clearing of all stars. There needs to be a return to the Title 10 General Officer limits and not allow the services to continue to hide stars in "non-General Officer billets" We have way too many staffs out there and every time a service "reorganizes" a staff to "rebalance internally to prioritize spending on combat power." That is code for lets add two more Flag Officers and an SES that way they can change the uniforms again.
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DOD: Army headquarters must cut funding by 25% by Sept. 11
Posted: Aug 21, 2013 2:37 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 22, 2013 1:22 AM EDT
Posted: Aug 21, 2013 2:37 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 22, 2013 1:22 AM EDT
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