[BITList] oh, no! - brass creep.

[CT's]

    Top brass on edge as defense secretary prepares to make cuts
         TAKING FROM THE TOP
          Robert Gates's proposed cuts would be the largest in the upper ranks since a similar squeeze at the end of the Cold War. 

    By Craig Whitlock 
    Washington Post / August 15, 2010 
      a.. E-mail| a.. Print| a.. Reprints| a.. Comments (1)Text size - +WASHINGTON - Of all the spending cuts and budget battles the Pentagon is confronting, none is causing more angst than Defense Secretary Robert Gates's vow to start getting rid of generals and admirals.

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      b.. Yahoo! BuzzShareThis By almost any measure, the military is a more top-heavy institution than it has been for decades. Today, there are 40 four-star generals and admirals, one more than in 1971, during the Vietnam War, even though the number of active-duty troops has shrunk by almost half.

    The number of active-duty generals and admirals of all ranks has increased by about 13 percent since 1996. It is, as Gates puts it, "brass creep.''

    But the defense secretary's pledge last week to cut about 5 percent of the brass is nothing short of seismic for many at the Pentagon. The cuts would be the largest in the upper ranks since a similar squeeze at the end of the Cold War, when the collapse of the Soviet Union prompted the military to downsize.



    hey, retire happy

    your $200,000 p.a. pension is safe, your free medical is safe - what more do you want? - a job for life?

    ct


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