What's the most important thing the military should do while going through this downsizing period?
Also, the career corner should be advanced more. When someone puts a PCS down, there should be an automatic email sent to them in regards to the Career Corner. Perhaps a questionnaire for skill set with a matched requirement for jobs that are posted. I see great things coming for and from RP!!!!!!!!
First off gentleman, downsizing during a period when both Russia and China are UPSIZING seems comical at best. If we are truly going to downsize and still remain an effective force, certain things definitely need to happen. First, and its seen across the board, the unfit for duty (repeated APFT failures as example), need to be removed. Second, a strong accountability of the equipment we have needs to be taken hold of on a serious level. Waste must stop immediately. Third, and I commented on this in another post, we need to adapt a "formless" design which our opponents will find difficult to follow. Adaptation under stress needs to be the rule of the day, and "by the book" strategy changed..too much has been leaked to the enemy, they have already "read" our playbook. Fourth, and im sure this will have some detractors, why not dual MOS the entire force? Less people who know how to do more is better than just less people. For example, im a combat medic but I serve with armor, I SHOULD be cross trained in either Bradleys or Abrams, it just makes sense. Fifth, the "rules of war" under the genva conventions are nice on paper, but not too practical when our opponents don't abide, my opinion. Sixth, troops returning from deployment should be better utilized ..as yet another example, why pay a fortune for Homeland Security to fly their own drones when we have operators in the military, already on the payroll, with drones, capable of doing the same exact thing for a portion of the cost?
Eagerly awaiting some comments,
Sgt Milke