What are the most significant changes the military branches need to make in this decade?

COL Mikel J. Burroughs — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:20:57 -0500

What are the most significant changes the military branches need to make in this decade?

Tell us about your particular branch and what they need to do to be come better or change or what they need to keep doing?

Response by Col Joseph Lenertz made Jan 28 at 2016 8:57 AM

Col Joseph Lenertz — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:57:29 -0500

The AF needs to change its approach to providing component C2 to the JFC. Every JAOC but one is so undermanned it could not support phase 2 ops without significant backfill of personnel. We need to move to a small forward ops division with large distributed reach-back capabilities for intel, strat, plans, & mobility that can "focus" limited personnel at any theater depending on priority. We no longer need physical presence to do most CFACC functions.

Response by LTC Stephen F. made Jan 28 at 2016 10:45 AM

LTC Stephen F. — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:45:48 -0500

COL Mikel J. Burroughs the leaders at all levels in the military branches need to exercise wisdom as they lead and make recommendations to:
1. Determine the force and equipping requirements through 2025 at least. Do their best to recruit and keep trained personnel in all pay required grades. Plan and execute to ensure there are sufficient force densities of critical groups to sustain long term operations without repeated tapping the same units to deploy with short intervals between - especially for those in the Reserve Components.
2. Plan and organize to fight the next war instead of current and past concepts
3. Improve interservice coordination and support within the service branches and the combatant commands. Identify core strengths and requirements and work with each other to determine which service is best suited for support, humanitarian assistance, and combat operations. Example TRANSCOM provides strategic lift, intertheater lift needs to be worked through for each conflict - land based conflicts, litoral region conflicts, arctic or cold region conflicts, etc.
USAF provides tac air support - long live the A-10 Warthog. Navy provides ship-to-shore fuel offload while Army provides the capability to receive the offloaded fuel and distribute and storage capability in land-based operations.
4. Train and lead by example of the application of military law, UCMJ and the Geneva and Hague conventions. For example our military personnel should never be punished for stopping people from sodomizing children.
5. The leaders of the military branches need to lead those branches and work with the CJCS to present a well-informed and unified responses to Congressional recommendations and investigations.
6. Military branches need to examine the Active Duty and Reserve Component mix in accordance with existing law. Rotation of units and personnels to deployed theaters need to be managed better.

Response by SN Greg Wright made Jan 28 at 2016 12:59 PM

SN Greg Wright — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:59:32 -0500

COL Mikel J. Burroughs The Navy needs to can the LCS program, accelerate the Ohio class builds, and maybe add a few more Zumwalt hulls.

Response by CW3 Jim Norris made Jan 28 at 2016 2:47 PM

CW3 Jim Norris — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:47:47 -0500

The military must become organized to fight a insurgency conflict in two locations, while maintaining the ability to deploy a significant heavy combat force to a theater. Our ability to reach any point on this globe with sufficient firepower to prevent anything like Blackhawk down or Benghazi happening again must be demonstrated and maintained. All personnel, in all MOS's must meet the exact same physical and mental standards for every job. No more bickering about genitalia, just a plain standard that is requirement to accomplish the job. The sillyness about naming convention for jobs must cease, after we have all of the bad guys put down, let's argue about our names and uniforms. We must elect a president that will let the Joint Chiefs run the show, and those selected to the JCS should pay heed to the Chief's of Staff of each branch. Let professionals run the services for a change - I know never going to happen.....yes it could. The nation should consider returning to a universal draft of young men and women into the services, giving each and every young person not disqualified by mental or physical shortcomings the opportunity to contribute to this great nation for 2 years. No deferments, no exceptions - except mental or physical - period. Volunteers signing up for 4 or more years get first shot at highly technical positions, those who complete they're two years as a inductee and desire to stay have first choice on openings in professional fields. America gets a young people that are riflemen, the services get a literal cross section of the nation. Make minimum combat tours 1 year in length and deploy by unit...the whole 1st Infantry 2nd Bde goals as does the mess and medical personnel associated with it. And for God sakes AF keep the A10 until you got something that can bring that much pain and stay in the game.......Warthogs forever!!!!!

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Jan 28 at 2016 5:32 PM

MAJ Ken Landgren — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:32:20 -0500

Army: Learn how to fight insurgencies. The US partnered with the host military needs lean mean fighting machines.

And all branches need to work on next generation weapons systems, as new weapons might change Doctrine and TTPs, anticipate the future threats.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Jan 28 at 2016 7:50 PM

PO1 John Miller — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:50:31 -0500

The Navy (and all branches in general) need to pick a uniform and stick with it. Stop changing uniforms every few years, it sometimes get REALLY expensive on the Sailor. And leaders, please don't give me that canned BS response of "That's what your uniform allowance is for..." because we all know it doesn't nearly cover everything we need 100%.

Response by LCpl Cody Collins made Jan 30 at 2016 10:59 AM

LCpl Cody Collins — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:59:12 -0500

Dump Political Correctness A.S.A.P.
Bring back the Drill Instructors that will put a boot up your ass, in a heartbeat. Raise the pay for all military, and require everyone that wants to enlist or seek a commission to know at 2 foreign language's.