US Army Reserve training: Catholicism, like Ku Klux Klan and Al-Qaeda, an example of ‘religious extr

[MADem]

15. Family services has improved down the years! It used to be that most of your junior enlisted were

single, but now a good chunk are married, so the whole paradigm has shifted.

When times were fat, they used to keep chaplains, like medical people, on a wartime footing. In peacetime, medical personnel are kept busy caring for space A patients (retirees, e.g.), because if you go to war in a hurry, you need a core of military medical personnel who know what the hell they are doing and can train the newbies, so you keep more on hand than you need. Chaplains were a "well larded" subset, too, because they were a regarded as a spiritual comforter in the stress of battle.

Now, they do a lot more of that "Just In Time" filling in, so all of those "extras" from the old days are being cut.

I wonder what Hagel is gonna do on those lines--there's lots of efficiencies to be made, and not all of them involve installation drawdowns and vertical cuts.