Hagel orders 20 percent cut in Pentagon top brass, senior civilians

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#1 | Hagel orders 20 percent cut in Pentagon top brass, senior civilians datum

Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:12 pm

The Washington Post
by Craig Whitlock
July 16, 2013

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that he has ordered a 20 percent cut in the number of top brass and senior civilians at the Pentagon by 2019, the latest attempt to shrink the military bureaucracy after years of heady growth.

Hagel�s directive could force the Pentagon and military command staffs to shed an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 jobs. That�s a tiny percentage of the Defense Department�s 2.1 million active-duty troops and civilian employees, but analysts said it would be a symbolically important trimming of the upper branches of the bureaucracy, which has proved to be resistant to past pruning attempts.

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#2 | RE: Hagel orders 20 percent cut in Pentagon top brass, senior civilians datum

Tue Jul 16, 2013 11:11 pm

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that he has ordered a 20 percent cut in the number of top brass and senior civilians at the Pentagon by 2019,

2019? Why not now? He and his crew of Socialists will be gone in Jan of '17.

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#3 | RE: Hagel orders 20 percent cut in Pentagon top brass, senior civilians datum

Wed Jul 17, 2013 1:11 am

This is GREAT news. The military has too damn many Generals and Admirals.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it�s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

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