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Strac Trooper
 
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Taken from www.strategypage.com
December 12, 2003: An economic recession and the war on terror have given the peacetime military one benefit; lots of volunteers and fewer people wanting to leave. As a result, recruits have been easier to find, and recruiting standards have actually gone up. But now it's gotten to the point where some of the services have more people than they need. The U.S. Navy just announced that it was laying off 400 junior officers. This is an unusual situation, especially with a war going on. But a similar situation has developed with enlisted sailors as well. Here, there were some job categories that simply had more people than were needed. A major factor in these imbalances is that not as many first term officers or sailors are leaving. The surplus sailors were given a chance to retrain for another job, and there has been some similar shuffling around of officers. But for the officers, the end result was that 400 of them don't have a job any more. They are being given six months to find a civilian job.
 
Fighters are our salvation, But BOMBERS alone provide us with the means of VICTORY! - Winston Churchill
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Hard Charger
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You mean they are getting an early out? Never heard of the Military "Laying" people off.
"Greater love than this hath no man, but that he should lay down his life for his friends."
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Seasoned Vet
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| There's no need to let those guys go. All they need to do is transfer them from the Navy to the Army and send them through 11B AIT (or IOBC for the officers) and send their butts to Iraq on the next thing smoking.
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Hard Charger
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smart thunkin there sir!
"Greater love than this hath no man, but that he should lay down his life for his friends."
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With the article on an increase coming, maybe they should be kept around anyway.
Go with God, but make Him walk the point.
If you load a mudfoot down with a lot of gadgets he has to watch somebody a lot more simply equipped - say with a stone axe - will sneak up and bash his head in while he is trying to read a Vernier. - Robert Heinlein
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Strac Trooper
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| So if this is a 'layoff' do they get called back at a later date?
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