US Military to chop 20% of all top brass
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Indeed... all of the brass doorknobs, push-plates, and railings in all DOD buildings are to be removed and sold for their scrap value, and replaced by ones made of carbon-composite (gold-plated), stainless steel, and mahogany (as appropriate).
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DOD....Knob-less! Nah....we just will trade one lot for another!
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Seriously - if we fired 50% of SO's would there be any detrimental effect?
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It has always interested me that when wars break out about 6-12 months in it becomes a necessity to run off almost all the SO's, Admirals, Generals etc who were in place when it started
Obviously the talents required in a peace time are not exactly suitable when the balloon goes up.............................
Obviously the talents required in a peace time are not exactly suitable when the balloon goes up.............................
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I always thought they were there simply to say "yes we can do that" to HM Gov, then in retirement they change to " we have been cut and are far to stretched to do that"
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I thought we had already chopped a large (relatively) number of SOs in the redundancy tranches?
Ministry of Defence cull sees RAF lose third of officers - Telegraph
I know 1 in 6 doesn't quite = 20% but it's not a million miles adrift. Does anyone know how many actually went, and how many jumped ship regardless of redundancy?
Ministry of Defence cull sees RAF lose third of officers - Telegraph
I know 1 in 6 doesn't quite = 20% but it's not a million miles adrift. Does anyone know how many actually went, and how many jumped ship regardless of redundancy?
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Originally Posted by SwitchMonkey
I thought we had already chopped a large (relatively) number of SOs in the redundancy tranches?
Ministry of Defence cull sees RAF lose third of officers - Telegraph
I know 1 in 6 doesn't quite = 20% but it's not a million miles adrift. Does anyone know how many actually went, and how many jumped ship regardless of redundancy?
Ministry of Defence cull sees RAF lose third of officers - Telegraph
I know 1 in 6 doesn't quite = 20% but it's not a million miles adrift. Does anyone know how many actually went, and how many jumped ship regardless of redundancy?
Originally Posted by Heathrow Harry
and all that brass adds a touch of distinction to Royal events
besides - where else would we get Lords Lieutenant of the County from?
besides - where else would we get Lords Lieutenant of the County from?
I guess they think that UK "brass" isn't up to the task.
However, I think your LLs aren't US citizens.
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Ah, you see that was me making assumptions again. I assumed the thread originator was British and I assumed that the comment "Now there's an idea" meant that we, the British, should follow the American example and chop 20% of our senior officers too.
Rather silly of me really.
Rather silly of me really.
