Hegset to Cut 20% of Generals & Admirals

[Scruddy]

Focus will be on GIs. Personally I love it. I also think 100% of the military, regardless of rank, should be required to pass basic physical fitness tests. The amount of large, unathletic bureaucrats larping around in military uniforms has become unacceptable (see disgraced former SoD Lloyd Austin). Love to see it, though I'm sure the war loving left will be upset about this somehow.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

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Focus will be on GIs. Personally I love it. I also think 100% of the military, regardless of rank, should be required to pass basic physical fitness tests. The amount of large, unathletic bureaucrats larping around in military uniforms has become unacceptable (see disgraced former SoD Lloyd Austin). Love to see it, though I'm sure the war loving left will be upset about this somehow.

That's because under Biden the standards were relaxed for women and older guys.

Army Eases Fitness Test Standards for Women, Older Troops​

Army Allows Women, Older Troops To Take Fitness Test With Reduced Standards

The Army has scrapped its move to have a physical fitness test that’s gender- and age-neutral, and will now allow women and older soldiers to pass while meeting some reduced standards.

www.nbcchicago.com

 

[mnole03]

Yeah, I don’t care how many push-ups Rickover could do.

Just like you don’t care that Donald Trump needs foot cushions to stand up straight.

Also, smart move firing the people you’re going to be giving 75% of their base pay to in retirement. Real money saver there.

 

[Scruddy]

Yeah, I don’t care how many push-ups Rickover could do.

Just like you don’t care that Donald Trump needs foot cushions to stand up straight.

Also, smart move firing the people you’re going to be giving 75% of their base pay to in retirement. Real money saver there.

100 > 75

 

[mnole03]

100 > 75

Paying 75% for them to do nothing. What value.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

I also think 100% of the military, regardless of rank, should be required to pass basic physical fitness tests.

Great idea. Let’s start with the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy.

 

[uihawk82]

Yeah, I don’t care how many push-ups Rickover could do.

Just like you don’t care that Donald Trump needs foot cushions to stand up straight.

Also, smart move firing the people you’re going to be giving 75% of their base pay to in retirement. Real money saver there.

I always thought there were a lot of top colonels and generals who did not even have many people reporting to them. A good old boy network. I did computer and web training design for the Nat Guard and Army for about 4 years and there were a lot of officers with few if any soldiers reporting to them.

But I dont like it when cuts and forced retirement plans are started with "we are going to cut 20%". How about you just look at each officer one at a time and see if they are needed rather that say well we are just taking a hatchet to it

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

Yeah, I don’t care how many push-ups Rickover could do.

Just like you don’t care that Donald Trump needs foot cushions to stand up straight.

Also, smart move firing the people you’re going to be giving 75% of their base pay to in retirement. Real money saver there.

Where are you getting this 75% claim?

 

[mnole03]

I always thought there were a lot of top colonels and generals who did not even have many people reporting to them. A good old boy network. I did computer and web training design for the Nat Guard and Army for about 4 years and there were a lot of officers with few if any soldiers reporting to them.

But I dont like it when cuts and forced retirement plans are started with "we are going to cut 20%". How about you just look at each officer one at a time and see if they are needed rather that say well we are just taking a hatchet to it

I’m sure there are plenty of superfluous officers, but there are like 14 four stars in the Army and they’re all serious commands. Even Training and Doctrine is 40k people.

 

[mnole03]

Where are you getting this 75% claim?

Because I was being charitable and using 30 years of service, which was the old cap. Most are at 35+ years.

 

[Torg]

Hegseth must have just received his marching orders from Putin

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

The Pentagon is brass heavy. Those ranks are over due for a trim IMO.

 

[Scruddy]

Paying 75% for them to do nothing. What value.

Some of them offer negative value. Look at milley and Lloyd Austin before they ran off as two examples.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

The Pentagon is brass heavy. Those ranks are over due for a trim IMO.

There are like 38 of these guys across the various services. Eliminating seven and half jobs smells an awful lot like theater.



To anyone feeling like jumping in; I know, I know...at least it something.

 

[hexumhawk]

Which is why he has gotten 100% negative coverage and people are trying their best to destroy him.

 

[Scruddy]

Which is why he has gotten 100% negative coverage and people are trying their best to destroy him.

The MSM and bureaucrats of the blob hate him but the actual troops LOVE him and recruitment is UP!!

 

[hexumhawk]

The MSM and bureaucrats of the blob hate him but the actual troops LOVE him and recruitment is UP!!

Which is all you need to know that he is doing a good job and over the target

 

[Scruddy]

Which is all you need to know that he is doing a good job and over the target

100%. This psyop is yet another left wing/blob failure. Pete ain't going anywhere.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

That guy is just one straight shooter.

 

[Scruddy]

That guy is just one straight shooter.

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He's got a future as the president of Harvard if true