According to the House Armed Services Committee, the 2011 Budget Control Act (the law that imposed both spending caps and sequestration) will force the Marine Corps to shrink by 25 percent--from 202,000 Marines to 145,000. What's more, "by the end of calendar year 2013, less than half of our ground units will be trained to the minimum readiness level required for deployment," Marine Corps commandant James Amos testified to Congress this month.My focus: "by the end of calendar year 2013, less than half of our ground units will be trained to the minimum readiness level required for deployment." The wars should come to a quick close anyway so that deployment is effectively not a problem. There is no problem here if that simply means troops will have to take longer to be deployed in an environment where there services aren't needed.
I could see the worry about 57,000 Marines losing their jobs, and going on the federal dole in the absence of employment. But they would've been on the dole anyway, albeit for a longer time, if they stayed in the military.
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