The Marine Corps’ top enlisted leader, Sgt. Maj. Micheal Barrett, believes the Marine Corps’ quality of life is so good right now that if the service cuts back, it would actually raise morale, Leo Shane reports at Marine Times.
“I truly believe it will raise discipline,” Barrett said at a Senate Armed Services hearing. “You’ll have better spending habits. You won’t be so wasteful.”
The comments come as Congress mulls a 2% pay raise for all service members, while some defence officials have requested a 1% raise instead.
“In my 33 years, we’ve never had a better quality of life,” Barrett said in the hearing. “We’ve never had it so good. If we don’t get ahold of slowing the growth, we will become an entitlement-based, a health care provider-based Corps, and not a war fighting organisation.”
On the surface, this sounds interesting, except that any "savings" from this will just be plowed back into useless weapon systems like the F-35, LCS, $15B aircraft carriers, and... senior leader comfort-castles.
As of 2012, we have 900-some flag ranks. Cut about 600 of those and then come back to the table about pay and benefits.
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