SFC Private RallyPoint Member 1227185 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div> 2016-01-10T18:07:25-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 1227185

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2016-01-10T18:07:25-05:00 2016-01-10T18:07:25-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 1227192

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We have a saying back home that goes something like this: &quot;To Hell in a Handbasket&quot; <br />I&#39;m just kidding. The military is awesome. No matter how much Washington screws us over, cuts our budget, and kills our veterans, we will always be the elite fighting force in the world. Well, we will for a long time. Another democrat president may put us in a hole that&#39;ll be hard to recover from.

2016-01-10T18:15:18-05:00 2016-01-10T18:15:18-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 1227199

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It will definitly change. Whether good or bad we'll see. I do not belong with the school of thought that is bad simply because it's different or some traditions change. The traditions of today's Army are vastly different from the Army 100 years prior. The people and their thing are also as different. Change is inevitable.

2016-01-10T18:20:27-05:00 2016-01-10T18:20:27-05:00 MSgt Steven Holt, NRP, CCEMT-P 1227331

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>To Hell in a Handbasket with the Bleeding Hearts pumping gas the whole way.....

2016-01-10T20:03:59-05:00 2016-01-10T20:03:59-05:00 SSG Leo Bell 1227431

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I like SSG Murdock saying from back home. I always said if it's not broke don't try and fix it. We spend more money helping other countries then our own or taking care of our military and veterans. We don't need to fix the military we need to fix the government. Right now we are supposed to be the number one military country in the world but with all these changes and cut backs. Our leaders in the military ( officers and good NCO's ) leaving and retiring we will have to find away to train the new soldiers, airmen, sailors, and marines to handle the missions that come up. Right now we are strength to thin with allot of missions needing to be filled as well as keeping and eye and a ready force to react to North Korea and Iran.

2016-01-10T21:02:40-05:00 2016-01-10T21:02:40-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 1227454

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>To war

2016-01-10T21:13:12-05:00 2016-01-10T21:13:12-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 1227608

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Wherever the Armed Forces is going, stay flexible and adapt as we continue to evolve.

2016-01-10T22:25:01-05:00 2016-01-10T22:25:01-05:00 CPO Greg Frazho 1227915

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Down the tubes. We're more concerned with not offending people than we are about being victorious in battle. Not a good business practice, to say the least, and one that our adversaries will exploit if we don't watch it.

2016-01-11T03:11:54-05:00 2016-01-11T03:11:54-05:00 LTC Charles T Dalbec 1228002

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Looking for leadership that is straight forward.

2016-01-11T06:48:12-05:00 2016-01-11T06:48:12-05:00 MAJ Bill Darling 1228115

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have mixed feelings. In my time in, I saw some encouraging developments such as a consistent move toward inter-service operationality and saw some positive cultural shifts which favored substance over form (no shine boots, lack of obsession with pressing BDU/ACU, focus on warrior skills above all, etc). But other policies and cultural changes have me concerned for the future. In particular, the relatively small but conscious move away from uniformity (as it pertains to uniforms) across the services seems to undermine the joint warfare concept. At the very least it appears contradictory. On a much more significant scale, the headlong pursuit of putting women in combat units for the sake of inclusiveness, career progression, and supposed equality rather than lethality and military effectiveness is a great concern which I believe will have long lasting and negative effects which will not become apparent until we find ourselves in another conventional, large scale war, which we seem to do every 80 or 100 years.

2016-01-11T08:45:47-05:00 2016-01-11T08:45:47-05:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 1228268

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Eventually the flavor of the day will become China and Russia.

2016-01-11T10:06:35-05:00 2016-01-11T10:06:35-05:00 Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth 1228540

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Our military is the strongest in the world but we are eroding at an exponential rate. We don't have civilian leadership backing, budgets are being cut at the expense of modernization and training, we are stretching our all volunteer force to the breaking points, we aren't doing enough for veterans, and we are cutting benefits for new accessions. <br /> A nation is only as strong as its defense. Note I said defense, not offense. I fully understand regional stability and all of that but there comes a point in time when we have to say, enough and pull back to protect our own borders and go after people when we have to go after them. <br /> I look at our military budgets that are being cut to the point that we have to ask for permission to buy pens and pencils, paper, and toner cartridges and supplies/equipment for an individual to deploy and we are continually told to do more with less and cutting our modernization of weapons and equipment...our priorities as a nation in support of defense are not in the right place. <br /> For example...Our budgets are being stripped to support social programs that are highly abused and not regulated....across the board! Government paid healthcare, cellphones, highly abused welfare programs...don't get me wrong (I am for the people that can't work and need assistance) but I see people get out of new Mercedes Benz/Lexus/BMW/ACURA/Cadillacs with Michael Kors/Dooney Burke (I know what they look like because I have a wife and daughter) purses/wallets wearing Rolexes and designer clothes paying for groceries with food stamps or EBT...that is just wrong. Then they answer one of the three Govt issued Cell Phones they have in their pockets. I am all for social programs but we need social program reform in a very bad way to address the abuses. AND NO...before anyone gets riled up says this is an attack on race, it is not...this is not a race issue and I don't want it to turn into one...this crosses all races and people in our American society...abuses of government subsidy are rampant across the board as well. When we are spending millions to study the mating habits of the California Desert Tortoise...too me that is Ludacris.<br /> <br /> If we don't get a hold of this as a nation, our defense is on a slippery slope and we can't build it up back to strength levels over night. Easy to cut up but very difficult to sew back to together.

2016-01-11T11:55:27-05:00 2016-01-11T11:55:27-05:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 1229387

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Perhaps the focus will shift to the defense of our own nation, because so much intervention has proved to be costly.

2016-01-11T18:42:46-05:00 2016-01-11T18:42:46-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 1232418

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I see that everyone has commented that it's going down, I say what are they doing to make it better? Though change is in order however I have to ask what are you doing to make it better.

2016-01-12T21:43:47-05:00 2016-01-12T21:43:47-05:00 SSG Thomas Gallegos 1232452

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I think with all era's it will have its down times. I believe what happens is many Soldiers are promoted when not ready to meet numbers and it fills the NCO Corp with trashy leadership. Thus you get to the point of QMP like the Army is doing now.

2016-01-12T22:02:34-05:00 2016-01-12T22:02:34-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 1238415

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>We are going where we have already been. Drawdowns have happened before. They usually coincide with a switch to more cantonment style trying and administrative overhauls. <br /><br />As a logistician, I am leery about the full implementation of GCSS-A as the main online LIS (STAMIS) system. I've deployed a few times and definitely didn't have a good solid Internet connection on any of them. Hell, I only had VSAT access on my last tour and nothing on my first. I'm getting to be an older dog in the trade now though. I cut my teeth on the paper forms and DOS based ULLS-G. Days were better when we just had to worry about keeping a generator running instead of our own network administrators changing security settings that bring our work to a grinding halt. The everything interconnected idea is nice in theory, but there are too many things that can go wrong in the field. Read the regs and be proficient in manual processes. I've already had to use them in real life situations both home and deployed when the SAMS-E went down. Expect and train for the worst, and you'll come out the best in the end.

2016-01-15T17:05:42-05:00 2016-01-15T17:05:42-05:00 SFC Pete Kain 1238436

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>As always, where they are told to go. Just the way it is. We do not have to like it, just live with it. <br />If you are unhappy with that, E.T.S and run for office.

2016-01-15T17:14:00-05:00 2016-01-15T17:14:00-05:00 SPC Dawud Makonnen 2032895

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I see a huge reduction and scaling to smaller recon groups and using more drones sort of like Terminator Salvation.

2016-11-02T04:08:19-04:00 2016-11-02T04:08:19-04:00 2016-01-10T18:07:25-05:00