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The United States military, like every institution, has become top heavy with useless people. We have a lot of Chiefs, not as many Indians, and the Chiefs don’t do very much except push their agendas and plan their future careers as defense industry lobbyists or consultants for foreign companies.
Introducing the “Less Generals More GIs Policy.” pic.twitter.com/bQLRL2MqSC
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) May 5, 2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is doing something about it.
The memo, titled “General/Flag Officer Reductions,” called for an overall reduction of 20 percent of four-star flag and general officers in the active force and 10 percent in the flag and general officer corps, reads the memo. Additionally, the memo calls for a 20 percent reduction of general officers in the Army and Air National Guard.
“More generals and admirals does not equal more success. Now this is not a slash and burn exercise meant to punish high-ranking officers,” Hegseth said in a video posted on X. “This has been a deliberative process, working with the Joint Chiefs of Staff with one goal, maximizing strategic readiness and operational effectiveness by making prudent reductions in the general and flag officer ranks.”
In the video message, Hegseth outlined two phases of the effort that he called “less generals, more G.I.s.” The first is a look at the current structure of the military services and the second is an evaluation of the Unified Command Plan.
“Phase two will produce a minimum of an additional 10 percent reduction of overall general and flag officers throughout the DoD in conjunction with a realignment of the Unified Command Plan.”
Expect a judge to step in however and declare that she knows better than the Secretary of Defense and that changes to the number of four star generals violates the Administrative Procedures Act.
Hegseth has flaws.
But no retired general would cut back the number of generals in the top heavy DoD.
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I had a boss like that. Her department was way overboard top-heavy. She was a supremely insecure even at times paranoid micromanager. I think if she could have hired two supervisors for every rank and file employee and then a supervisor to supervise every supervisor she would have done it.
The more supervisors she had the more important she thought she was and the more micromanaging she could do. And she could hide her incompetence by blaming one of her supervisors for her mistakes.
Kamala is famous for tantrums directed toward her staff whenever her incompetence/stupidity embarrasses her in public.
Hillary is just as bad. (Something Bill has been on the receiving end also.)
Bella Abzug was such a venomous bitch to her staff, she was dubbed “Batling Bella”.
That’s the hallmark of someone who’s trying to hide their incompetence. It’s been my observation that in certain industries and professions, incompetence is the norm.
Moreover, incompetent managers tend to surround themselves with incompetent subordinates. That way there’s always someone available to throw under a bus when sh*t goes wrong. It’s human nature so what can you do?
Sh*t happens and bad sh*t happens to stupid and incompetent people. Unfortunately, it’s the rest of us who have to deal with the consequences of stupid and incompetent people. Like that Army helicopter pilot who flew into the path of a commercial jet coming in for a landing.
That hell was brought to you by feminism – the idea that women and men are interchangeably the same in the guise of “equality.”
Can women write their names in the snow in cursive and dot the i’s and cross the t’s? No problemo for a man. Just give us a couple of beers and stand back!!
You had a boss? I always thought you were perpetually unemployed.
Who do you blame your incompetence on?
Pete Hegseth is the first Secretary of Defense I’ve seen who actually does anything and makes improvements in the military. So of course the D-Bags hate him. The last guy was a complete piece of DEI garbage. I think the fact that he’s handsome (like me) is the main reason the resentful D-Bags hate him so much more than any other Cabinet member. I notice D-Bags hate good looking conservatives more than average looking ones.
My hope is he walks shitheads Miley & Austin out the door, while their e-mails, hard drives, contacts, etc seized immediately. (“Leave it all Sir; it’s evidence”)
Some dumb bitch refused to display the portraits of Trump, Vance, and Hegseth. Her belligerence made it easy – she got her useless ass fired immediately. 🍻
Even Douglas MacGregor, who can be a bit of a mixed bag, has noted that when Eisenhower ran things there were 3 or 4 four-star Generals. Now there are more than 40. Seems rather bloated, and ripe for SNAFU.
I’ve read that the ideal officer to enlisted ratio is no more than five percent officer. The senior NCO staff is also top heavy.
We’ve a long way to go
Not sure about the senior NCO staff being top heavy. The top two ranks for all services are paygrades E-8 and E-9. Since shortly after they were created in 1958, Congress has controlled their levels. When I was an E-9, I am pretty sure it was not more than 3% can be E-8 and 1% can be E-9. Just looked it up and either it changed sometime or it was always this and I just heard wrong but for 2025 it is 3% E-8 and 1.25% E-9. Not sure that could be called top heavy though where they are stationed and how individual commands (and especially staffs) are manned could give that impression. I know that in the fleet, it is quite common for E-7s to fill E-8 jobs and E-8s to fill E-9 jobs. I had both happen to me.
The senior NCO staff are the engines that makes the military go and keep it running. The officers staff are just the pilots and drivers. The top brass, to a large extent, are as useful as teats on a bull. They’re just spit polished finger waging bloviating bureaucrats with too much idle time, tax payers money and lives to play with.
Hegseth is weeding out the flag officers who are woke, DEI advocates. the LGBTQ practitioners and advocates, plus those who put Islam before this country. If you remember Obama canned most of the competent flag officers and kept those who would drink his cool aide. This move ruined the military’s leadership capabilities and significantly weaken the fighting force. Trump tried to fix things during his first term but was backstabbed by the likes of Milley. Biden continued Obama’s policies on overdrive to the point we can’t win any significant conflict at this point in time. Pete is in the process of fixing the damage done and rebuilding our military as fast as possible.
It’s about time. For quite awhile we’ve had more Generals and Admirals than we did during WWII. That was when we had over 9 million in uniform.
A week or two ago I read article about the British Navy. They currently have more Admirals that they did during WW2, and thousands less ships.