Military Should Trim the Top, Like Most Innovative Organizations. ... The military plans to slash at least 100,000 personnel and there will be fewer people, airplanes and ships to command.

From the time of the founding of the Republic, the very existence of a standing army has been a point of political contention. The chief opponent of the entire concept was Thomas Jefferson. His rea… ...

Army Excalibur 155mm artillery ammunition was cut to save $71,000. Many of the program elimination line items are somewhat unclear, such as a notation about $12,000 saved from 21 M777 A2s systems ...

Historically, the Army Rangers have utilized a longer-than-average timed run for their assessment test into Army Ranger School and the Ranger Battalions/Regiments screening program, the Ranger ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — The Army plans to trim its enlisted ranks of staff sergeant and above starting in April according to a Nov. 14 memorandum. The memo, signed by Thomas R. Lamont ...

The Jan. 6 editorial “ Just a trim ” missed the point about why many are angry about the newly enacted reduction in cost-of-living adjustments for working-age military retirees. Regardless of ...

Aided by the shrinking troop requirements for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is cutting the current yearlong deployment tours to nine months for most of its units beginning next Janu ...

An Army UH-60 Black Hawk flies over MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., March 15, 2023. (Airman 1st Class Derrick Bole/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is readying to trim its UH-60 Black ...

The change will not affect any of the Army troops deploying this year, and some high-demand units — such as aviation and military police — will continue to serve 12-month tours.

WATERTOWN, WIS. - With America at war and in need of a few good men, Jon Schoenherr expected a warm reception when he walked into an Army recruiting office in this Midwestern farm community ...

At the end of World War II there were 2,000 generals and admirals overseeing 12 million U.S. military personnel. Today, nearly 1,000 flag officers preside over about 1.3 million people.