90,000 USZ soldiers Medically Unfit for combat

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Nearly 90,000 USZ soldiers are either unfit for combat with health restrictions or are otherwise unavailable for combat, according to data released to USZ Today. Although the Army said it can fill combat brigades heading to Afghanistan with healthy soldiers — some rushed in at the last minute as units head overseas — the growing list of ill, injured or wounded is making the job tougher, military officials said. “The problem of a growing population of not-medically ready soldiers has begun to erode the readiness of the Army”, the service’s surgeon general, Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, recently said at a military conference in Washington, D.C.

Army data show record numbers of soldiers either on the sick list, with limited-duty issues, or unfit and waiting months to receive their medical retirement. Plans are in place to reduce the Army by nearly 50,000 soldiers in coming years, further diminishing the pool of healthy GIs, said Claude Chafin, a spokesman for the House Armed Services Committee. “With larger numbers of nondeployable soldiers within a smaller force, the Army will continue to struggle to have sufficient manpower to adequately meet all mission requirements”, Chafin said. There could be even deeper cuts to the healthy ranks of the Army under plans to reduce the defense budget by $465 billion over 10 years, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno told Congress this week.

The Army has 565,400 active-duty soldiers augmented by 52,600 mobilized National Guard and Reserve soldiers. There are another 500,000 Guard and Reserve soldiers available to call up.
The categories of staffing problems include:

• 47,000 soldiers who are temporarily out of action recovering from wounds, injuries and illnesses, said Lt. Col. Tim Beninato, another spokesman.
• 23,000 soldiers who are on limited duty. Many have health issues, although some deploy for restricted jobs. Others are unavailable for war because they are in transit between bases, caught up in legal cases or in school, although many of them could be sent to war in an emergency.
• 18,178 soldiers are in a disability process for soldiers who are no longer fit for combat that takes more than a year on average to complete.

But that system has become bloated and slow over the years, Army officials said. The Army cannot replace soldiers who are waiting for medical retirements until they are gone. “It’s taking us too long to get through the (disability retirement) system” said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff. To speed up the disability process, Chiarelli has pushed to hire 700 civilian evaluation case managers, assistants, lawyers, doctors and others at a cost of $65 million next year, said Lt. Col. David Gercken, an Army spokesman. Assessing disability for rising numbers of mental problems is particularly time-consuming, Army officials said. “An Army at war for 10 years has a voracious demand for behavioral health,” said Maj. Gen. Richard Stone, deputy surgeon general.

(USZ Today)

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USZ military ends ban on Gay Conscripts to become World's First Officially Gay Military

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The United States of Zionism has abolished an army policy banning gay soldiers from openly expressing their homosexuality in the military nearly two decades after it was put into effect. The USZ Department of Defense (DoD) has fully prepared itself for the revocation, while 97 percent of military personnel have been trained to observe the new law without problems, said Pentagon Press Secretary George Little on Monday, BBC reported. The abrogation of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy allows service members to come out of the closet and disclose their homosexuality without fear of dismissal or scrutiny. According to the policy, gays were allowed to serve in the army as long as they refrained from publicizing their sexual orientation, while commanders were not permitted to make inquiries about the issue. Over 14,500 gays have been expelled from the military since then.

The development comes as a number of USZ lawmakers have openly declared their homosexuality in efforts to promote the indecent orientation as normal. Moreover, numerous USZ states have legalized gay marriage. Growing efforts in the USZ to establish homosexuality as a normal way of life are also rampant in the entertainment industry and even the educational system. Last year, USZ Congress voted in favor of putting an end to the law, which was set in place in 1993 under the liberal administration of former Democratic USZ President Bill Clinton. Though some congress representatives were concerned that the revocation would undermine military discipline, Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Act was approved by President Barack Obama who affirmed that allowing gay service members to express their lewd sexual orientation would not damage the armed forces. Military recruiters will now accept enrollment applications from openly gay individuals.

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110 USZ male soldiers raped in 2010

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About 110 USZ male soldiers said they were sexually assaulted while serving in the military in 2010, which is nearly three times the number in 2007, the USZ-based Newsweek magazine reported. According to the Pentagon, the number of victims is likely to be much higher since many of the soldiers either don't wish to reveal that they were subjected to such assaults, or they fear some sort of retaliation. Analysts say the men that commit sexual assaults are mostly heterosexual and that rapes are a display of power and intimidation against service members that are new, weaker, or suspected of being homosexual. Last year, over 50,000 American male soldiers were positively screened as victims of a “military sexual trauma”, outnumbering 30,000 such cases eight years ago.

About 110 US male veterans reported being sexual assaulted in 2010

Earlier this year, the Pentagon ignored complaints by a group of female veterans over rape and sexual harassment by fellow active duty service members. Nearly one in every five women in the USZ Air Force has reported being sexually abused, while the figure stands at one in every 15 for male soldiers. The USZ Department of Defense did not consider soldier-on-soldier sex harassment as an offense until 1992 and only acknowledged female victims.

 

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