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Army Officials Say Many More Active-Duty Troops Are Needed
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Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post
December 25, 2008
The Army needs to add at least 30,000 active-duty soldiers to its ranks to fulfill its responsibilities around the world without becoming stretched dangerously thin, senior Army officials warn.
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“You can’t do what we’ve been tasked to do with the number of people we have,” Undersecretary of the Army Nelson Ford said in an interview last week. “You can see a point where it’s going to be very difficult to cope.”
Already, the Army lacks a strategic reserve of brigades trained and ready for major combat, officials said, and units being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving new soldiers at the last minute, meaning they have insufficient time to train together before crossing into the war zone.
But the demand for soldiers extends beyond those countries, with the Pentagon creating new missions that require troops trained in cyber-warfare, homeland defense, intelligence-gathering and other areas, Ford said. “We have five to 10 new missions, and we are already stretched now.”
The Army is currently on track to grow to 547,000 active-duty soldiers next year, up from 482,000 before the war. But Ford and other Army officials say that, with rising demand for ground troops for Afghanistan and other contingencies, the increase is insufficient.
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December 25th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Hey, we’ve got thousands of 4 foot tall
Mexican guys down here in South FL
with nothing to do except chase a
soccer ball around, now that there are
no construction jobs.
If they want ‘em they can have ‘em!
December 25th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Never does it cross this stupid idiots mind that maybe they are trying to do stuff that the people don’t need or want! Instead of needing more troops all the while the country is sinking into mire why don’t they realize that like Dr. Paul says we need to get out of these countries? All these types can think of is war, that’s why they are all going to be burned up. How do they fit in to the plan stated in the bible where we are going to have a world where “they will learn war no more” isayah 2:2?
Why is it that no one thinks of trying to prepare themselves for what the scriptures say is going to happen? War is obsolete, and not popular, but you wouldn’t know it listening to these idiots huh?
How bout getting rid of every idiot like this guy, shrinking gov, getting out of all countries that don’t want us there, getting back to growing enough food to supply the world, developing free energy techs and getting rid of all man-made holy days. I think that would be a great start! Let’s start with tommorrow Nimrod’s birthday, everyone should return those stupid presents, open up an encyclopedia and read the truth behind this pagan holy-day to our kids and instead of waiting until the 1st of jan, start tommorrow make your resoloution to teach the kids only the truth. Oh yeah also read the definition of st. Nick to the kids which says it means Devil !!!
December 25th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Oh please send your sons and daughter to be killed in wars we pick for the purposes of the globalist government and degenerate men like Bush, Cheney, Obama, Biden, ect, ect. To be killed and maimed, wounded and disfigured on the alter of freedom to a nation that denies and destroys freedom and liberty for it own people. Oh please. Let’s have a draft and start the age at sixteen. Will that be enough to make fathers rise up or will they continue to sacrifice their sons to Satan on the alter of mamon.
December 25th, 2008 at 12:59 am
“more troops” are needed , for what ? To police the world on behalf of internationalist corporations ? All we need is enough troops to protect our embassies ; after that, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME to be productive. Save our troops from harm and dishonor !
December 25th, 2008 at 1:08 am
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Oh please send your sons and daughter to be killed in wars we pick for the purposes of the globalist government and degenerate men like Bush, Cheney, Obama, Biden, ect, ect. To be killed and maimed, wounded and disfigured on the alter of freedom to a nation that denies and destroys freedom and liberty for it own people. Oh please. Let’s have a draft and start the age at sixteen. Will that be enough to make fathers rise up or will they continue to sacrifice their sons to Satan on the alter of mamon.
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December 25th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Wait until machines take over then there will be nothing to worry about anymore, except our own lives in greater quantities.
December 25th, 2008 at 1:43 am
they destroy the economy,,,no jobs left,,,young men out of high school with no where to begin a career,,,,are forced to join the military!! no they dont have to begin any kind of draft ,, they went further,,destroy this country so our young can go be destroyed at the behest of the NWO neocons,,,,and all this probably conspired by and put together by those men( evil doers) who lie with other men in abomination before almighty God,, at the bohemian grove,,,and now they want to turn the young men and women in the military against their own country?? to shoot US citizens ???
December 25th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Huck:
You are mentally and emotionally corrupt.
If you would call yourself a typical American, – then now we know why your Government is mentally and emotionally corrupt.
December 25th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Benjamin Martin:
Yep, you fingered it precisely. Create economic hardship, – then offer the poor f---ers a job in the military.
The NWO plan is fiendish in its brilliance. They’re clever. Are they ever!
December 25th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Israel attacked us on 9-11 so we would fight all over the Middle East on their behalf.
Dual citizen Israeli/Americans in our Government are more loyal to Israel than to AMERICA.
GOOGLE : TED OLSEN CALL LIE
GOOGLE : ODIGO WARNING
GOOGLE : UNUSUAL EVACUATIONS
GOOGLE : SILVERSTEIN PULL IT
GOOGLE : DANCING MOSSAD
GOOGLE : MEXICO MOSSAD
GOOGLE : BIN LADEN DENIED 9-11
GOOGLE : ADAM PEARLMAN ADL
GOOGLE : CHENEY JONESREPORT
December 25th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Weren’t they just BRAGGING the other day about how their recruitment is up since the recession hit? And how they surpassed their target goals? Now they need MORE people.
Whatever.
Let’s just have a draft and get it over with. But at least START at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown and NYU and go from there. Then there’s a chance a few rich kids might have to sit in a deluxe, double-wide in Qatar. That’s all we can hope for nowadays.
December 25th, 2008 at 4:52 am
rogdix — STUPID you are! Illegal aliens sponge off this country and commit crimes against Americans in record numbers you fool.
Sure thing!! Send them off to die, instead of our American boys and girls, who aren’t breeding like cockroaches, and spreading like parasites across the U.S.
Here in Texas, it’s the same as in Florida like Huck was saying, dumbass! All they do is play soccer, get drunk, kill people on our roads, among other crimes like rape, murder, and vehicle burglary, which is a growing crime as well.
Illegal aliens are the most racist people on Earth, and you know this to be true! They have no rights in this country, and it’s a damn shame that they simply live for getting drunk and partying to loud annoying tejano music, while our boys and girls get sent off to die.
DEPORT YOURSELF NOW! BUILD THAT WALL AND DEPORT THEM ALL!
December 25th, 2008 at 9:39 am
And this is where all the unemployment generated with the destruction of the economy comes in. All the newly unemployed will have little choice but to enlist and become soldiers in all the dirty wars. Why conscript when you can just put everyone out of a job and get them to sign up voluntarily to be cannon fodder.
http://www.advisingvideo.com/i.....what-draft
December 25th, 2008 at 9:39 am
http://english.pravda.ru/world.....a_change-0
December 25th, 2008 at 10:09 am
#7 is right on, I didn’t think of it from that angle! I see it now!
Amazing # 12 you are a real whiz Drinking, loud music soccer, ….send them to die! I’ll tell you what buddy I wouldn’t want to be you in the near future when the nukes go off, I think ummm you’re gonna be a dead dude. I’ll tell you right now the creator has no use for you! NONE
While they are rude, loud and racists for the most part, yes I do speak fluent 100% spanish! and they are even worse at other times I won’t mention, but to send them off to die for any reason is well just plain EVIL and well maybe you ought to go get yourself a soccer ball and live it up because your future is just about over buddy, you will be judged by those prophetic words. I wouldn’t be suprised if it isn’t you that’s going off to china or wherever the next phase is. In fact I hope it is you, you and everyone that thinks and talks like you rather than people who know what compassion and love are. You are not an american you are a devil, besides who made you the judge?
Why don’t you learn to speak spanish if you are so damn scared?
December 25th, 2008 at 10:17 am
The ANTICHRIST needs more men and women to fight for his Global New World Order.
The False Messiah will soon appear and rule from ISRAEL.
December 25th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Mexicans are cutting peoples heads off, murder and kidnapping is commonplace across the border and yet we think the Middle East is violent ?
Why is there near zero media coverage of all the massive violence in Mexico ?
Why arent they calling the mexicans terrorists ??
You have a 75% greater chance of being robbed or killed by a Mexican than EVER being hurt by a Muslim.
I have never heard the Mexicans being called Catholic Terrorists…..
Just like we never called the Irish Catholic terrorists when they used to fight the Protestants in England. Even when they used to plant bombs on each others school buses.
Soldiers are being pumped up to go fight an imaginary enemy created by elitist bankers and oil barons.
Good luck dying for a LIE.
December 25th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Post 15!! I do speak fluent Spanish dumbass!! Think before you speak, stupid!
You want to test me you traitor? Go ahead and ask me something in Spanish to see if I’m lying!!
Just because YOU, yourself haven’t yet become a victim of illegal alien crime, doesn’t mean it’s not happening you liberal fool!
I DO have compassion for anyone living in squalor, and don’t blame the hard working illegals who actually show respect for Americans and this country. I’m talking about the illegal alien parasitic criminals! READ THE POST BEFORE YOU SPOUT OFF AGAIN STUPID!
MS-13 gang members are killing black teenagers in California, simply because they’re black. Learn about Jamiel Shaw you TRAITOR!
NOW DEPORT YOURSELF NOW! It’s YOU who’s not American, as it’s evident you care NOTHING for your fellow American citizens, as well as caring NOTHING for this country! It’s evident you support open borders and amnesty for criminal illegal aliens who have killed more people on the border this year alone, than we’ve lost in Iraq.
SHAME ON YOU!
December 25th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Complete non cooperation with these warmongers, thieves, and human manipulators is the only solution. Just as a car cannot run without fuel, the system that has been created by these devils cannot run without the PEOPLE. The only fuel we should give, is love and compassion to them and one another, if that is what we want reflected back in this existence we refer to to as life. Change must occur within oneself.
December 25th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
We need to thwart these recruiters (always non-violently of course). Call the recruiting offices and find out when they have their Recruiting Days or ASVAB testing at your local high schools. Protest them there.
Retrieve videos, pix, documents, that show things like the depleted uranium used in the Middle East.
Tell and SHOW them how the VA is shunning our returning vets. Show them cancer rates among returning servicepeople. Show them the most disgusting repulsive pictures of young dead Iraqis-especially women and children. These recruiters are vying for potential killers, so show the youth what death looks like. Show them what mutation looks like. Show them what MORAL HORROR looks like!
Find willing Vets to join you. They have seen the inside of the machine. They can counter any blathering recruiter.
Find out information about Smedly Butler and relay that to the Marines. They (I) worship that man. They don’t know he was recruited to take over the U.S. and he refused and the NWO treated him accordingly.
For the Army, bring info from Robert K. Wilcox, author of TARGET: Patton, the Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton.
Educate these poor young folks who don’t know what’s ahead for them!
LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!
DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER!
December 25th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Economic Crisis? Out of money? No work?
Join the Marines! Become a beast that stabs between the 3rd and 4th rib!
Don’t do it folks, that’s one machine that WILL eat you alive.
December 25th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
~You might have more troops for the field General if your presidents didn’t line them up in America to control us while they hijack and loot the country!
~BRING THE NWO DOWN!
December 25th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
This is what the gov’t been talking about—-sacrifice means death. Go fight our wars. You get nothing. Go die for the global cabal. They will use you then kill you.
December 25th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Already, the Army lacks a strategic reserve of brigades trained and ready for major combat, officials said, and units being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving new soldiers at the last minute, meaning they have insufficient time to train together before crossing into the war zone.
If you would not be deploying battle hardened troops on our streets where they DONT belong you may have more on the Battle Field.
December 25th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Yeah, they can’t get even lunch times right in D.C. and the Pent. What makes anyone think that they will get more of an increase in their troop population by the young adults out here in America. I talk to may kids through various ages, and, from an ex-military veteran perspective, the all answer a flat friggin’ NO, NO, NO, NO…..all the time. I reinforce their good decision to NOT join the U.S. military or any other military, through telling them that all that service time means DEATH, in a very huge amount of cases where people know one another from boot camp and then serve in conflicts such as Vietnam and Iraq. These innocent children are the vicitims of this elitist society of BULLS— propaganda and economics that do not serve mankind in any good and fair, mortal, value-based fashion. they are now knpowing that their puny force of tin soldiers is no match for a full, all-out, national retaliation from the civilian public, especially if there are many “new” broods of militia (that they do not pay off and have on their payroll). Form a milita? Yes, but make it a secret to your community of very long-time and well-known friends and family, just like they keep the bailout numbers secret from us all.
Fight, fight, fight, but fight the knowledge war first to get more of us on OUR side….the Sons of Liberty side!!!!!!!!!!!11
December 25th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
michelle http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/
preventing genocide
December 25th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
more troops for what? perhaps this article i read on yahoo today is a little foreshadowing
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....t_forecast
December 25th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
#21 your 100% correct. if anti abortionist are allowed to show graphic pictures on the roadside of aborted dismembered babies then we should be able to do the same in regards to the horrors of war, but i guess the christians would have to actually lose their freedoms and or lives so that idea goes out the window. must be nice to pick and choose whats easiest and lose nothing. however, their time is at hand for doing so.
December 25th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Other contingencies????????????
December 26th, 2008 at 6:41 am
There is no reason to consider the expansion of the military in an age of nuclear weapons. We only need a national guard. A big military means we need a chance to use them; and we shouldn’t and do not.
The best job for the military is to be small, technological, and efficient, I bet if we told them that they were only allowed to have ten jet fighters, those jets would be the best in the world. Since we guarantee them ever-larger ‘budgets,’ we’ll never run out of jets; or people making money off of selling them to us.
We just need nukes and national guard: http://mediacondom.com/?p=385
December 26th, 2008 at 9:37 am
OPEC IS MAKING ALL THE TROUBLE FOR THE USA,!!!OPEC=THE DEVIL,!!!
December 26th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Why does the U.S. military “have responsibilities around the world”? Why noy just defend American territory? Withdrawing from South Korea would be an excellent start.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Correct,close down most all bases outside the borders,put some of the troops on the borders,send the rest home to their loved ones and reorganize the true militia,the people,encourage gun ownership and training,give control of the militia back to the govenors where it belongs and then lets work on our own problems here in the country,we’ll save a ton of money we wont be oppressing anyone,ourselves included, and we would dare anyone to launch an attack on us,we would once again be an army within an army,an armed and free people defending our own,guess that must scare the tyrants pretty bad as they work very hard to go the other way,maybe we should take the hint!
December 28th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
This is a good excuse to pull the National Guard into the active Army…
The guard wouldn’t go quietly though.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
We need more troops over seas. The more that are gone into active duty. The more jobs that will be left back here… medical jobs, to take care of all the physically and psychologically injured.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
if you join the u.s. army you’ll become a killer , murderer for the u.s. government demons
so make up your mind wisely p.s. they don’t even care if you live or die
February 26th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
i guess the chosen few on top will get the message that the american public is fed up with all the evil that they have caused in this nation and the world, and will have to go fight these crap wars themselfs to steal the little peoples lives so they can rule the world, its a good sign that america is waking up to this zionist agenda for world power,the fact is they are at the end of their quest and are losing the very american peoples trust and good will and if they keep it up they may destory themselfs as far as being considered the leaders of the american people in the eyes of the world when that happens who will give them the time of day let alone the dignity to come to talk in their nations, they are making themselfs leapers to all the people they have betrayed for what the crown of ultimate power, that can never be had for it is an illussion that no one group can ever own ,for all peoples are the true power,win their hearts and their minds and bodies follow in this case they are using the stick and soon will find they will be leaders of those who want them gone,but as all fools they will never see the truth because they think all people are too dumb to see the real truth, this personal problem is the tip of the volcano and mark my words when it goes off i woudnt want to be them for several trillion dollars,for where could they go in this whole world, that is safe for them the answer is no where except hell.