Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to soldiers, families and civilians during a town hall meeting at Pope Army Airfield on Fort Bragg, N.C., July 15, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Timothy Hale
Hagel Orders 20 Percent Cut In Pentagon Top Brass, Senior Civilians -- Washington Post
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that he has ordered a 20 percent cut in the number of top brass and senior civilians at the Pentagon by 2019, the latest attempt to shrink the military bureaucracy after years of heady growth.
Hagel’s directive could force the Pentagon and military command staffs to shed an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 jobs. That’s a tiny percentage of the Defense Department’s 2.1 million active-duty troops and civilian employees, but analysts said it would be a symbolically important trimming of the upper branches of the bureaucracy, which has proved to be resistant to past pruning attempts.
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My Comment: The brass are now feeling the pinch of cuts .... and here is an easy prediction .... this is just the start of what will be even more cuts in the future.
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