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Where do my fellow RP brothers and sisters stand on our future
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Military History Future
Posted 9 y ago
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In ten years, I expect to see us on the verge of going purple - no more Army and Air Force and Navy and Marine Corps - just one branch - the "American Armed Forces."
There are zero reasons to have FIVE different personnel systems. There are zero reasons for four services to have CAS capabilities and cargo capabilities. There are zero reasons to have five different NCOES systems. There are zero reasons to have five different communications systems for short-distance comms. There are zero reasons to have phreaking trademarked camo patterns to make us "special." The money that would be saved would be ENORMOUS!!
Yeah, it's not a popular idea, and some of the folks that truly fear change are feeling their heads start to explode for me bringing this up at all, but if we were all that interested in nothing but history and tradition, we'd be using flintlock weapons and nothing but bugle calls and messengers to send messages. It's time to enter the 21st Century.
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There are zero reasons to have FIVE different personnel systems. There are zero reasons for four services to have CAS capabilities and cargo capabilities. There are zero reasons to have five different NCOES systems. There are zero reasons to have five different communications systems for short-distance comms. There are zero reasons to have phreaking trademarked camo patterns to make us "special." The money that would be saved would be ENORMOUS!!
Yeah, it's not a popular idea, and some of the folks that truly fear change are feeling their heads start to explode for me bringing this up at all, but if we were all that interested in nothing but history and tradition, we'd be using flintlock weapons and nothing but bugle calls and messengers to send messages. It's time to enter the 21st Century.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
I rather tend to be fairly fond of military history as a rule and have thus always been rather fond of arcane inter service differences and associated minutiae. That being said I could certainly see the logic behind such unification though it'd obviously remove a good deal of what might be otherwise on a purely practical level be deemed romantic and and nostalgic ananchronisms that could obviously save money as pointed out. That being said I'd obviously lament the loss of such romanticism I suppose though given that I gather Canada did it I suppose it might perhaps be inevitable however lamentable I guess.
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It would save a lot of money but I see one major reason why it wouldn't happen. Consolidating all the forces would cut down on a lot of general officer positions, as well as senior civilian posts. I don't see military leadership advocating against their own self interests.
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Trick question SFC Jeffrey Couch Look at DS/DS, and right after....Drawdown and the famous last words..."No more Task Force Smith's".
History repeats itself. We'll be locked in to something. Undermanned, under equipped, and jumping thru hoops to get back up to speed.
History repeats itself. We'll be locked in to something. Undermanned, under equipped, and jumping thru hoops to get back up to speed.
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Or even after Vietnam, Korea, and WW2. If you read thru it you will see a trend...lol
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