Righteous Wrath Online Community

General => Lobby => Topic started by: Mr. Analog on February 24, 2014, 01:02:10 PM

Title: Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level
Post by: Mr. Analog on February 24, 2014, 01:02:10 PM
QuoteWASHINGTON ? Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel plans to shrink the United States Army to its smallest force since before the World War II buildup and eliminate an entire class of Air Force attack jets in a new spending proposal that officials describe as the first Pentagon budget to aggressively push the military off the war footing adopted after the terror attacks of 2001.

Article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/us/politics/pentagon-plans-to-shrink-army-to-pre-world-war-ii-level.html?_r=0

Also:
Quote?You have to always keep your institution prepared, but you can?t carry a large land-war Defense Department when there is no large land war,? a senior Pentagon official said.

Can this be... actual reason? From the Pentagon??

The flip side is the Military arm of the US Gov't is one of (if not THE) largest employers / health care providers in the USA, are they going to bring back the WPA?

Yowza!
Title: Re: Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level
Post by: Melbosa on February 24, 2014, 01:05:12 PM
wow!
Title: Re: Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level
Post by: Lazybones on February 24, 2014, 01:07:37 PM
Wait what, they are going to take a measure to reduce the MASSIVE military that has been a primary untouchable budget item for years?  :o
Title: Re: Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level
Post by: Mr. Analog on February 24, 2014, 01:13:05 PM
It's just what those danged Rooskies want us to do, well they won't catch US with our pants down

(http://i.imgur.com/CPUT79B.jpg)

YEEEEE HOOOOO! YEE HOO! YEEEEE...

...

*cough*

But yeah, I was just getting caught up on the news and my eyebrows shot off my face.
Title: Re: Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level
Post by: Darren Dirt on February 24, 2014, 01:15:26 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 24, 2014, 01:13:05 PM
It's just what those danged Rooskies want us to do, well they won't catch US with our pants down

(http://i.imgur.com/CPUT79B.jpg)


^ y'ain't been the same since you took that shovel to the back of y'head (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OfGPo1RlZGc/Uc0RCv2SV5I/AAAAAAAAOHo/9s_ZAgtwV1Y/s425/blazing-saddles.jpg), cowboy!
Title: Re: Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level
Post by: Mr. Analog on February 24, 2014, 01:18:17 PM
Clearly they had rivulets of ideas flourishing into torrents of invention

... ditto!
Title: Re: Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level
Post by: Darren Dirt on February 24, 2014, 01:24:44 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 24, 2014, 01:18:17 PM
Clearly they had rivulets of ideas flourishing into torrents of invention

... ditto!

If your mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of BS references, howzaboutyou check out this head-asploder:
http://d2rights.blogspot.ca/2013/06/parallel-lines-same-basic-story-two.html <-- BS = basically the same story as "Oz The Great And Powerful" ayfkm!?