Article: Combat SM's Admin Separations on the Rise

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http://www.militarytimes.com/articl...port-Combat-troop-discharges-increase-sharply

Not the most in depth article but worth the read. This article is more evidence of what a lot of us here feel is going on and are seeing more and more of--at least in the tone of new members to this site. The Army doesn't know why there is such a sharp increase in these separations...but they know it has nothing to do with budget cuts and that they are doing everything they can for these SM's before they kick them out the door...what a joke.
 
I didn't read the article but I can tell you from my 34 years of working for the Army that EVERYTHING is based on strength (manning). If the Army is understrength its real easy to get in and hard to get out. The opposite is true if the Army is overstrength. Strength is based on funding . . .
 
Unfortunately, based upon the current requirements within the DoD, each Military branch of service will continue and try to meet mission requirements via whatever organized tactic that is legally binding at the time of implementation.

Thus, I quite often comment that "possessing well-informed knowledge is truly a powerful equalizer."

Best Wishes!
 
The 2012 Annual Report from ARBA cited a two-fold increase in officer separations from the previous year.
What I find interesting is that for about seven years servicemembers were told they were the fittest, fiercest, most lethal force the world had ever seen. All of a sudden the same commanders that uttered those accolades began telling everyone they were out of shape, didn't know their core job skills, were lacking in discipline, and that the "deadwood" needed to be burned. Now we see a rash of misconduct discharges, except for the GO/FO population.

It generally takes ten years for a new O-7 to make it to his or her fourth star. Look at the current leadership in the military, at the 3 & 4 star levels. When the GWOT kicked off, most of them were O-5 or O-6, a few O-7. These are the leaders that built, trained, equipped, manned, and wrote the doctrine for a military going to war in 2001. They lead the military during the war, and now they bring it home from war. If there are problems with the military in the way of discipline, skill, fitness, or other matters, then the first group that should come under scrutiny is the leadership. But, that's not happening - it's everyone else that's getting hammered.

Look at the NDAA numbers in the reductions. The GO/FO population is being reduced at a slower rate than the rest of the forces, despite a ratio of GO/FO to others that is about five times what it was in WWII.
 
Big government begets big government, by time a col. becomes a star, they have entrenched themselves in politics, by time they get the second star they are regulars to congressional hearings or their name is "in the loop" so to speak, so they make jobs for themselves, they make careerism a possibility.

No one here doubts that the near future is a huge draw down, it has been on the horizon for some time, equally no one doubts that besides admin discharges, MEB's are gonna rise both voluntary and involuntary. Next year DoD budget is appearing to take a cut at least equal to that of sequester numbers this year, yet civilian jobs are not being eliminated, blue suiter jobs, air shows, training tdy's, exercises, O and M budgets are all gonna be slashed. America has spoken, our civilian counterparts want a strong welfare state with no way to defend itself or to project its strength and vision for a peoples across the globe.
 
Main MEB referred targets from what I've heard is SM's who been on perm profile for quite sometime
 
Combat Eng said:
Main MEB referred targets from what I've heard is SM's who been on perm profile for quite sometime
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Too many high-paid "Chiefs" and not enough "Indians" is what's going on.

5 times more General Officers to Enlisted/ROs than we had during WWII.

I mean, how many GOs does it take to screw in a light bulb?

I'm guessing this isn't going to stop until GOs become the ones manning the trenches and firing the cannons - or, they are threatened with this as their next "upward" promotional position.

Not enough ROs & GOs genuinely lead from the front anymore. The DOD budget is a lot of "trickle up", very little "trickle down", and filled with a lot of bloated civilian contractor budgets and bonuses.

"We Support Our Troops" and the "Thank-you for your Service" does little anymore to genuinely assist the injured Servicemembers. Military service is becoming a much less "Hallowed and honorable" career of service and becoming a more "Hollowed out and questionable" outcome for our injured.

These tolling of the bells are sounding very dull to me.

V/R,
nwlivewire
 
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