re: Pentagon plants to shrink army to pre WW2 level

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I don't want to "cut" any of them as much as I would like to reform all them to eliminate waste and improve adaptability to changing circumstances while at the same time putting us on a path to financial stability.

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Nobody should disagree with that. Unfortunately, it's like the old Aesop's tale about a group of mice who thought all their problems would be solved by putting a bell on the cat. Great idea, but it can't be implemented.

Repeat it with me. The government can never be efficient. A govt employee will never be as frugal with your tax dollars as you are with your checking account.

Blasting all of your ammo off the range isn't uncommon.

Every Battalion has a STRAC, or basic amount of Class V (ammunition, pyro, fun stuff) that they are allotted every year based off of the unit's MTOE (military table of organization and equipment). So an artillery unit for example, will get x amount of artillery rounds by type (HE, illum, smoke, etc.) x amount of crew-served and small-arms ammo, x amount of pyro and whatever else.

The reason they're blasting off all that ammo, or giving it away to other units, is that if the ammo is not utilized, the STRAC allocation for the next fiscal/training year won't be as much as the previous year.

My 1SG was great about letting the Joes go when the work was done. We officers on the other hand, had to wait out the goddamned "last officer to leave the office game" Commander But learned from that lesson and didn't treat my LTs and CPTs the same way I was treated when younger.

Yeah, sometimes you just gotta stay late. (Eff you MDMP)