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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