Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said she was pleased with the outcome.
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But despite the apparent loss of 200 job in this round of cuts, uncertainty could continue for a year until Congress decides whether to let kick in $1.2 trillion in budget cuts – half to the military, half to domestic spending, called the sequester.
The military is downsizing the Army by 40,000 troops by 2017 as a part of budget cuts, a reduction that will affect all domestic and foreign posts.
An additional 17,000 Army civilian employees also will be laid off under the plan, the report said.
“It could have been much worse”, said George Breece, a member of the N.C. Military Affairs Commission, under the state Department of Commerce.
Photo via Fort Drum PAO Flickr feed.
The post gains a divisional artillery command and an engineer support company. Gen. Jeffrey Bannister. We cannot afford to reduce our military readiness at a time when the threats to our security here at home and throughout the world are growing at an alarming rate.
“This wise decision by the DOD brass duly recognizes that the United States Army of tomorrow – nimble, highly-trained, and rapidly deployable – is living and working right here, right now in the form of Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division”, Schumer said.
Schumer says that compared to the possibility of seeing hundreds or thousands of personnel leave the base, the loss of 28 soldiers is a “victory for Fort Drum and the whole North Country”.
“Although no one wants any reductions at Fort Carson, just 365 cut out of 23,349 soldiers shows that we are viewed favorably by the DOD and the Army”, Lamborn said in a statement.
Efforts to reach Fort Jackson officials and representatives of US Sen.
Reductions to Army staff aren’t necessarily over, though.
The announcement was made Thursday morning in a press release from Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett.
“While the Army does not desire to make reductions, they are necessary to preserve war-fighting capability and avoid a hollow force as the Army reduces end-strength due to continuing fiscal pressures”, the Army said in a statement.
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Jones was instrumental in galvanizing a team of supporters for Fort Benning who rallied to keep the post’s force in tact two years ago. “I think that really paid off in this situation”.
