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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: JohnM who wrote (10830)10/5/2003 3:40:07 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (1) of 793900
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/opinion/05SUN1.html
the burdens of occupation will start to strain severely the Army's capacity to deploy trained and rested combat forces worldwide in a matter of months. In the longer term, the lives of thousands of military families will be disrupted, the Army Reserve system so carefully built up when America moved to a smaller, volunteer Army three decades ago will be put at severe risk and the global reach of American foreign policy will almost inevitably be diminished.

There is that decade thing again.

Yes we did have a reduction in force as Vietnam wound down.
Yes the volunteer army did start with the discharge of the last draftees at Thanksgiving, 1975.

The 1970s reduction paled against the Clinton cuts of 35%-39% of the Army, Navy, USAF and Coast Guard and his 6% cut in the USMC.

Looks to me like the real cutting took place in one decade not three.
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