As the Army reduces its personnel strength numbers to prewar levels, leaders at all echelons must understand that every Soldier assigned to their unit counts. The loss of Soldier’s is and will be the largest resourcing shortfall in the Army moving forward. The Army’s current personnel reduction from wartime highs to smaller prewar levels is a massive culture shock for many brigade and company commanders.
Soldiers have undergone separation boards forcing them to be involuntarily separated. These boards are forcing the Army to separate quality Soldiers. Many Soldiers have gone through these boards while serving in combat zones. The moral and welfare of the Soldier and unit could be affected significantly as the Soldiers may lose focus on their …show more content…
Over that time the Army's active component has been reduced by eighty thousand Soldiers and the reserve component by eight teen thousand Soldiers. Sequestration will force the Army to make more cuts to personnel. These reductions have put brigade and unit commanders at significantly lower personnel numbers in some cases so low that local level unit training has been canceled. These training cancelations strike at the very core of readiness and leave the units unprepared and untrained for their wartime …show more content…
The Army will be forced to cancel over five thousand seats from Initial Army Training, eighty five thousand seats from specialized training, and over one thousand seats in pilot training programs. These cuts to the Army’s schooling program show how significant and overarching the Army’s personnel cuts are. These cuts to schooling detail the large numbers of technically trained Soldiers that will not be available to maneuver unit commanders, these positions as well as the support positions that commanders need have been and will be cut from the manning rosters leaving the commanders short of the Army’s most vital recourse Soldiers.
Soldiers are the most important piece of the Army force structure and should be cared for, and protected as a United States of America National Treasure, because without them what are we as a Nation actually fighting for and protecting? These personnel reduction decisions will impact the Army and the National Security Environment far into the future potentially leaving America open to more
Soldiers have undergone separation boards forcing them to be involuntarily separated. These boards are forcing the Army to separate quality Soldiers. Many Soldiers have gone through these boards while serving in combat zones. The moral and welfare of the Soldier and unit could be affected significantly as the Soldiers may lose focus on their …show more content…
Over that time the Army's active component has been reduced by eighty thousand Soldiers and the reserve component by eight teen thousand Soldiers. Sequestration will force the Army to make more cuts to personnel. These reductions have put brigade and unit commanders at significantly lower personnel numbers in some cases so low that local level unit training has been canceled. These training cancelations strike at the very core of readiness and leave the units unprepared and untrained for their wartime …show more content…
The Army will be forced to cancel over five thousand seats from Initial Army Training, eighty five thousand seats from specialized training, and over one thousand seats in pilot training programs. These cuts to the Army’s schooling program show how significant and overarching the Army’s personnel cuts are. These cuts to schooling detail the large numbers of technically trained Soldiers that will not be available to maneuver unit commanders, these positions as well as the support positions that commanders need have been and will be cut from the manning rosters leaving the commanders short of the Army’s most vital recourse Soldiers.
Soldiers are the most important piece of the Army force structure and should be cared for, and protected as a United States of America National Treasure, because without them what are we as a Nation actually fighting for and protecting? These personnel reduction decisions will impact the Army and the National Security Environment far into the future potentially leaving America open to more