U.S. Military Down Sizing Accelerated - Obama wants to do more with less

[Reality Check]

Obama is accelerating his 2013 announced "additional cuts" to the U.S. Army's units containing combat troops.
Additional cuts he had promised would occur over 4 years. Will be accomplihed in just two years, being complete on September 30th, of this year ( 2015 )

In 2015 the U.S. Army will remove six ( 6 ) more Brigade Combat Teams from the U.S. Army.

In 2014 the U.S. Army removed an addition five ( 5 ) Brigades.

Twenty more ( 20 more ) Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) will be re-organized in 2015.

In 2014 the U.S. Army had 35% more Brigade Combat Teams than it will on September 30th, 2015.

Leaving just thirty-one ( 31 ) Brigade Combat Teams in the entire U.S. Army. In 2014 there were 42 Brigade Combat Teams.
All 31 remaining Brigade Combat Teams will have been reorganized in a period of two (2) years ending September 30, 2015.

At the same time the U.S. Combat troops are deployed to an increasing number of countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Kuwait, and various countries in Africa.

The military has announced Romania and Bulgaria will be added to that list later this year ( 2015 ).


http://www.armytimes.com/story/military ... /22936227/

[Reality Check]

The Army is reorganizing 20 brigade combat teams and inactivating six others this year as it pushes to complete a sweeping — and accelerated — reorganization.

The moves come as the Army has soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, Europe, West Africa and numerous other places around the world, and the service braces for even deeper end-strength and budget cuts.

"We're navigating a few storms. We're an Army that is currently in a significant drawdown," said Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Daniel Allyn. "And while we are drawing down, while we are meeting increasing demands around the globe, we are also reorganizing our Army for the future.

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"That is going to be some extraordinarily heavy lifting, particularly for our commanders in our tactical units," Allyn said.

When the Army inactivates a Stryker brigade, for example, it has to process more than 40,000 pieces of equipment, Allyn said.

Most of that work is done at the company level, he said.

"Our smallest units bear an extraordinary burden when we deactivate," he said. "Likewise, when we reactivate, tens of thousands of pieces of property is transitioned. It is not a small undertaking."



Last year, the Army reorganized 12 BCTs ( 20 more are re-organing this year ).

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http://www.armytimes.com/story/military ... /22936227/