WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army, forced by five years of war to expand its ranks, faces a critical shortage of midlevel officers, interviews and military records show.
Those officers – majors and lieutenant colonels – manage troops at war. The Army estimates it has about 13,900 majors and 8,750 lieutenant colonels this year. It expects to have an annual shortage of 3,000 such officers through 2013 as it increases its ranks by 40,000 soldiers.
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If the Army would replace the imcompetent boobs they have as very uncivil “civil servants” in the 90th, maybe they would have more officers. I know of one in particular. He was approved by all of the boards and was even approved by Donald Rumsfield. The morons at the 90th just failed to get his age waiver done.
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