Pentagon's New Deploy-or-Out Policy Could Separate Up to 286K

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The Pentagon's new "deploy-or-out" policy could result in the separation from military service of possibly 286,000 personnel who are currently deemed medically unfit for overseas duty.
Wilkie said there would be exceptions for pregnancies and the services would also be able to retain wounded troops who are cleared by medical boards.

"On any given day, about 13 to 14 percent of the force is medically unable to deploy -- that comes out to be around 286,000 service members," Wilkie said.

The new policy grew out of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' directive last summer to the services to take steps to improve the "lethality" of the force in overseas operations. Mattis' guidance said the services' actions should be "designed to ensure our military is ready to fight today and in the future."

The solution the services came up with required service members to be deployable within 12 months or be forced out of the military.

However, "service members who have been non-deployable for more than 12 consecutive months will be processed for administrative separation," the memo said. In addition, the services would not have to wait until a service member has been non-deployable for 12 consecutive months to begin the process of separation.
Wilkie gave the services until Oct. 1 to implement the new policy, but said they also could begin separating non-deployable personnel immediately at their discretion.
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What I've been saying for yrs. I'm not anti-military but I know for a fact there's a ton of dead wood in it that's nothing more than a social welfare program.
Good for this administration for finally taking the initiative in doing something about it.

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What I've been saying for yrs. I'm not anti-military but I know for a fact there's a ton of dead wood in it that's nothing more than a social welfare program.
Good for this administration for finally taking the initiative in doing something about it.

Yup...I hear you...one of the things a lot of people don't want to talk about is how our military has turned into a jobs program. Something it is not intended to be.

I have a friend who is career military. All his adult kids have by passed college for a military career. Not one single member of his nuclear family is employed in the private sector.

He once chastized me as being a government loving, socialist liberal. I then reminded him which one of us worked for a major corporation in the free market and which one worked for the US Government in a socialist department.

He's all for slashing government spending...until those cuts hit the DOD...then it's liberals fucking over the military. When I commented that the armed services were never intended to be a jobs program he chocked. LOL

Having said that I bet he back tracks as the MI Complex will howl in outrage. If Trump does stand up to that third rail and succeeds...my hats off to him.