Our grand daughter is going on 9 years in the Marines, two tours in Iraq;
she applied for anoth 6 year enlistment and was denied due to the military cutbacks. So she now faces being discharged January 2016.

This tells me there was not much thought given to the impact on career individuals, officer or enlisted. There are so many alternative ways to make the reductions happen that would allow those who want to continue to serve to do so.

Needless to say this was a shock to her as well as to those of us who are ex military.
For me it displays the shallow nature of the planning of implementation in the US government.

No thinking or consideration for those loyal to and willing to serve.

Emasculation of our armed forces by arm chair who have no idea of the impact of their robotic actions.

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