Biden budget would mean smallest Army since WWII

MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
Thus saith The Surrenderer in Chief!

What about the other branches?

Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for posting the perspective of armytimes.com authors Davis Winkie and Jen Judson.

By the way, the Army 2022 Budget end strength request is for 1,010,500 not 998,500

Defense 2021 enacted 2022 Request Dollar Percent
Defense $703.7B $715.0B +11.3B +1.6%

Background from {[asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2022/pbr/FY22_PB_brief_28MAY21.pdf]
Army FY2020 Actual 2021 enacted 2022 Request
Army $150B $153B $177B

$Billions FY20 FY21 FY22
Actuals Enacted Requested
Military Personnel [1] 62.7 65.0 66.2
Operation and Maintenance [2] 75.8 66.2 65.5
Procurement/RDTE 37.8 38.3 34.1
Military Construction/Family Housing/BRAC 2.5 2.0 1.7
Other (ANC/CAMD/AWCF/ASFF/CTEF) [3] 7.3 5.1 5.5
Totals $186.04B [4] $176.6B [5] $173.0 [6]
Notes
1: Includes Medicare Eligible Retirement Healthcare Fund
2: Includes Environmental Restoration Account (ERA) funding
3: Other Base: Chemical Agent and Munitions Destruction; Army Working Capital Fund; Arlington National Cemetery; Afghanistan Security Forces; and Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Train and Equip
4: Includes $1.2B CARES Act; $0.1B Emergency for disaster; $1.4B OCO for base; and $35.8B Direct and Enduring OCO
5: Includes $3.5B OCO for base; and $23.4B Direct and Enduring OCO
6: Includes $10.4B Direct War and $8.0B Enduring Costs

Military End Strength
Component FY20 Actuals FY21 Enacted FY22 Request
Regular Army 485,383 485,900 485,000
Army National Guard 336,129 336,500 336,000
Army Reserve 188,703 189,800 189,500
Totals 1,010,215 1,012,200 1,010,500

Special Edition: FY 2022 Army Budget with MG Chamberlain
How does the Army’s FY 2022 Budget support people, readiness and modernization? The Army’s Budget Director, MG Paul Chamberlain, joins AUSA’s Mark Haaland to share his thoughts on the new budget request. They discuss how it meets the Army’s priorities for people, readiness and modernization while fulfilling requirements for the interim national security strategic guidance set by the current administration. They cover reductions in the FY 2022 budget, a different accounting method for other contingency operations (OCO), and the readiness of our Army to fight and win.
Guest: MG Paul A. Chamberlain, Director for Army Budget, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management & Comptroller)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG510uzz6xM




Background from {[armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/03/28/biden-budget-would-mean-smallest-army-since-wwii/]}
Amid a major land war in Europe, the Biden administration’s fiscal 2023 budget request would temporarily shrink the active duty Army to 473,000 troops if enacted by Congress.
That could leave the service at its smallest size since 1940, when it had just over 269,000 troops. Other historical lows include an authorized 476,000 in fiscal 2017 and nearly 478,000 in fiscal 1999 at the nadir of the post-Cold War drawdown.
The administration’s proposed budget would:
Reduce the active duty force from 485,000 — the end-strength authorized in the fiscal 2022 bill — to 473,000.
Maintain the Army National Guard’s current strength of 336,500 and the Army Reserve’s 189,500 troops.
Reduce the total Army, across all three components, to 998,500 soldiers. It’s not clear when the force last dipped below 1,000,000 troops.'
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