Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took the first step to turn his rhetoric about bloated senior military ranks into policy on Monday with a memo ordering the services to eliminate at least 20 percent of their active-duty four-star general and flag officer billets, as well as at least 20 percent of all general officer jobs in the National Guard, plus another 10% of general and flag officer billets across the entire military. The memo sets no deadline for the services to eliminate the jobs, nor does it direct the services to send him a list of proposed cuts. “However, while always very small in comparison to the total force, the GFO corps has increased as a percentage of the total force over the past five decades,” the report found.
Author: Meghann Myers
Published at: 2025-05-05 21:56:14
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