Army Releases Deploy-or-Out Rules for Administratively Sidelined Troops

[Peter1469]

Army Releases Deploy-or-Out Rules for Administratively Sidelined Troops


When congress caps your troop strength lower than needed to perform missions that our government asks of the army, this is needed. It sucks for good soldiers who get hurt doing their jobs.

The U.S. Army today publicly released its new policy for dealing with soldiers who are non-deployable for administrative reasons, just over a month after the Pentagon's new deploy-or-out policy took effect Oct. 1.

"Soldiers who are non-deployable for an administrative reason ... for more than six consecutive months, or six non-consecutive months in a 12-month period, will be processed for administrative separation," according to the new policy dated Nov. 8.



The large number of non-deployable service members is a problem every branch of the U.S. military has struggled to manage, but the Army has radically reduced its number of non-deployable soldiers in the past year, according to Maj. Gen. Joseph Calloway, director Military Personnel Management.


"Since a year ago, we have come from 121,000 non-deployables, which is about 15 percent of the total Army," Calloway told defense reporters at the Pentagon today. "We have come down to right at 6 percent."


Some of those non-deployable troops have been processed out; others have resolved any outstanding issues that prevented them being able to deploy.


In the last month, the Army seen its non-deployable ranks drop from about "66,000 to about 59,000," Calloway said.

[Common]

I see a draft coming again sooner than later. The military had no recruitment problems for the last 10 yrs because the economy sucked and people still had to feed their kids and themselves.

I think it affects recruitment and this crazy never ending cycle of tour after tour after tour because theres not enough personnel.

I think they will have no choice bout to draft again if theres any major situations

[Tahuyaman]

I don't see a draft in our future.

However, there are a shocking number of soldiers who are in a non-deployable status for a variety of reasons. Most of these non-deplorables need to be purged as they have a negative impact upon the morale of a unit.