By This news may effect the contractor work force in Korea:
With the 2008 war funding still unresolved in Congress, the 8th U.S. Army has submitted a plan for proposed budget and personnel cuts.
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody ordered commanders to figure out their weekly costs of minimum essential operations and to develop plans to use soldiers to replace civilians and contractors who might have to be laid off around Feb. 23, according to The Associated Press.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned in a speech last week in Texas that as many as 100,000 civilians and 100,000 contractors could be laid off, according to AP.
Eighth Army spokesman Lt. Col. Brodrick Bailey refused to provide any details on the commands plan Wednesday, including how many, if any, civilians and contractors might be laid off if the funding doesnt come through. [Jimmy Norris - Stars & Stripes]
Hopefully it doesn’t come to this, but if some of you contractors out there get a pink slip for Christmas you know who to blame. I don’t know if this will effect Korean workers or not because they are paid through money given to USFK from the Korean government, so I would not imagine they would be laid off.
I kind of like the idea that all the defense jobs in the districts of the Congressmen like John Murtha who are holding up the spending bill should be the first ones to be laid off.
More over at Lost Nomad and Lex.
It is the sad reality. No mistake...
3:01 pm on December 7th, 2007 1
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6:56 am on December 9th, 2007 2
It is a shame that the war is being linked to the defense spending bill. I know, I know. War is the Army's business. Defense spending for normal operations should be separate from the proposed war budget so that we know exactly what is needed to fund the "war" on terrorism. I know you're a supporter of the troops in Iraq as am I. I just think that funding the war is, in a way, supporting the war. Hate the war, love the troops. The best thing I think I can do for our troops is to bring them home and give them a strong economy to raise their pay, or if they decide to get out, a good job.
4:30 pm on December 15th, 2007 3
[...] All you military contractors and civilian personnel out there can breathe a little easier now since you now won’t be getting a pink slip for Christmas: [...]