Tiered Readiness Returns In Army 2015 Budget; Not All Brigades Ready to Fight

Tiered Readiness Returns In Army 2015 Budget; Not All Brigades Ready to Fight
Tiered Readiness Returns In Army 2015 Budget; Not All Brigades Ready to Fight

PENTAGON: Last year, the sudden budget cuts known as sequestration forced the Army to cancel crucial training for 78 percent of its combat brigades. The budget request for 2015, released today, buys back a lot of that lost readiness — but not all. In fact, the Army has now officially resigned itself to what it…

Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning

Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning
Army Cuts 10 Combat Brigades — Or 11, Or 13 — And That’s Just The Beginning

PENTAGON: The Army’s widely publicized decision to cut 10 brigade combat teams from bases in eight states is just part of the story of the incredible shrinking armed services. To start with, it’s not actually 10 brigades: It’s 11, the 10 announced this afternoon and a player to be named later. Or, if you count…

New Networks Potential Untapped Until Services Shrink Units, Strip Hierarchy

Sitting in the cockpit of her A-10 Warthog somewhere over Florida’s Eglin Air Force Base on Jan. 10, Maj. Olivia Elliott flipped a switch. In an instant her blunt, twin-engine warplane with the 30-millimeter cannon in the nose was transformed. No longer just the Air Force’s most heavily-armed attack jet, now the A-10 was also…