My son was on the Lincoln for 4 years, now is US Army national Guard.
From 74-96 there were many times when we did not have the money to repair our tanks. After a major inspection of our tanks in 87 the average tank in the Battalion had over 300 deficiencies, granted the bulk were minor but we just didn't have the funds to get the little stuff they needed, sometimes nuts, bolts and washers. About a year after I retired a friend still on active duty was talking about coming to visit. He told me it would be about a month before he would arrive because of a major field exercise. 4 days later he calls and said he's be here in a couple of days. He told me they went out and on the 2nd day had one tank broke a final drive and another lost the tranny......and that was it, units last repair money for the year was spent and they were only 1/2 way through the budget year.
When the military is handed their budget for the year they are not just handed a check. What they get is "here is x amount for new equipment and x amount for fuel and x amount for building maintenance and x amount for training. The military isn't allowed to shift those funds around.
Thats basically what happened to the guys serving just before Korea. In the Army almost every platoon was missing a squad, every company a platoon, every battalion a company.....right up the line. In the Marine Corp when the 1st Division was ordered deployed they had to strip the 2nd Div and other activities plus call up the Marine reserve to bring the 1st to war time strength. I'm sure the Navy and Air Force were in the same boat. Plus when you don't have the money to fix the equipment you don't have money for training.
While an 800,000 man Army cost too much we know a 400,000 man force isn't large enough to fight 2 minor wars at the same time without the Guard being repeatedly deployed.
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