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Deliberate,
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Susan Fabozzi
WASHINGTON — Following the
2013 repeal of the Direct Ground
Combat Definition and Assignment
Rule, the secretary of defense is
scheduled to announce final decisions to integrate remaining closed
occupations and any approved exceptions to policy on or about Jan.
1, 2016.
Juliet Beyler, the Defense Department’s director of Officer and
Enlisted Personnel Management,
reported “good progress” in the
Women in Service Review, which
validates all occupational standards
to ensure they are operational, relevant and gender-neutral by September 2015.
“Throughout the course of the
review of the regulations governing women in the military, we determined that the time had come
to do away with the direct ground
combat rule and open all positions
to women instead,” Beyler said.
The goal, she explained, is to expand opportunities to ensure that
all service members are eligible to
serve in any capacity based on their
abilities and qualifications, and to
“remove those old gender-based
barriers to service that no longer
made sense.”
When Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E.
Dempsey and former Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta removed
the direct combat ground rule in
2013, they realized the need for a
deliberate and measured approach
to ensure the smoothest transition,
Beyler said.
The services, she said, have
been conducting various studies
in order to review, validate and
complete their occupational standards by the fall of 2015. “We’re
on track and moving toward that
goal,” Beyler said.
Since rescission of the definition and rule, Beyler said, the
DoD has notified Congress of the
integration of about 71,000 positions previously closed to women.
This development, she said, can
positively affect the force by allowing people to serve based on their
ability.
“Expanding opportunities to
women, to include the 71,000 we’ve
already opened since 2013,” Beyler said, “[gives] a wider pool of
qualified people so that commanders have greater flexibility … and
it’ll strengthen the all-volunteer
force.”
More than 280,000 women have
been deployed to Iraq and Afghani-
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“I like to say that women have
been serving in combat since the
Revolutionary War, but the 280,000
that we’ve recently seen deployed
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the direct ground combat rule,
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“But there were other restrictions, such as for physical requirements or positions associated with
special operations or long-range
reconnaissance,” she added. “We
are reviewing all of the occupational standards.”
The services, she said, “are expending a good amount of their
time on those 100-percent closed
occupations.”
U.S. Special Operations Command
includes a provision in which a
military department secretary or
service chief can request an exception to policy to keep a position
closed, Beyler said.
“But any exception is going to
have to be rigorously justified and
will have to be based on the knowledge, skills and abilities required
to perform the duties of the position,” she said.
Tailoring training,
accession needs
Regarding assignments,
training, and accessions, Beyler
said those elements have been
and will continue to be service
responsibilities.
As defense secretary, Panetta
directed each of the services and
SOCOM to develop individual implementation plans tailored to their
unique requirements, she said.
“As we have with the positions
we’ve already opened and the ones
Exception to policy
that we’ll continue to open throughHistorically, the department had out the next year and beyond,” Beyopened positions by exception, but ler said, “each service will use the
it now has acknowledged it would regular accession and training asmake more sense to “flip the pre- signment pipelines and timelines
sumption,” Beyler said, so that all that they’ve always used.”
positions will be open to women
The process of opening more
unless there’s a reason that they military occupations to women is
should be closed.
about maintaining the all-volunteer
Guidance to the services and to force and readiness, Beyler said.
Special Forces Soldier dies on holiday leave
Our battalion mourns
the unexpected loss of Master
Sgt. Sean McClure. He was an
absolute professional, leader and
warrior who provided tremendous
service to our nation.”
Special to the Daily News
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE – A Soldier
assigned to the 7th Special Forces
Group (Airborne) died Jan. 5 of medical complications.
Master Sergeant Sean McClure
was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th
SFG (A) when he died while on holiday
leave.
“Our battalion mourns the unexpected loss of Master Sgt. Sean McClure. He was an absolute professional,
leader and warrior who provided tremendous service to our nation,” said
Lt. Col. Ronald Fitch, commander of
the 2nd Battalion. “He was well loved
and respected by all who knew him.
Our thoughts and prayers remain with
his family during this trying time.”
McClure, a resident of Niceville,
Florida and a native of Baltimore,
Maryland, joined the Army in 1991
as a Military Policeman. He would go
on to serve in various MP leadership
positions.
- Lt. Col. Ronald Fitch
Master Sergeant Sean McClure
He is survived by his sons, Dylan
and Sean and two stepdaughters, Haley and Emma.
He volunteered for Special Forces
in 1999, eventually graduating as a
Special Forces Communications Sergeant and earning his Green Beret. He
was assigned to the 2nd Battalion of
the 7th SFG (A) in September of 2001
and later to the group’s 3rd Battalion
in June 2004.
During that time, McClure deployed once to Afghanistan, twice to
Iraq and to various countries in South
America.
He returned to the 7th SFG (A)’s
2nd Battalion in January of 2014 and
served as an Operations Sergeant.
McClure’s numerous awards and
decorations include the Bronze Star
Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal, as well as many others.
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reinforcements
from other
parts of the
hospital
when you
have five
or six patients at a
time. That
wasn’t the
case at Al
Asad,” Heck said. And yet
it was “a blended purple
force able to take care
of anybody who came
through the door.”
Now a third-term Republican congressman
from Nevada, Heck vows
to take the same “practical, non-parochial” approach in tackling two far
different yet still critical
priorities for the military
while serving as the new
chairman of the House
armed services’ person-
Tom
Philpott
nel subcommittee.
One will be to review,
perhaps reshape, and
then shepherd into law
long-awaited recommendations of the Military
Compensation and Retirement Reform Commission, which is to deliver
its report by Feb. 1. Heck
is hopeful reforms can be
enacted this year, though
most will be aimed at “the
100-meter target” of “the
next generation” military.
“I don’t think there’s
going to be any quick
25-meter fixes to try to
address current budgetary constraints,” Heck
cautioned.
Commission proposals
on modernizing retirement, for example, will be
for future service members although likely to
have an “opt-in” period for
those now serving if they
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are drawn to new features
such as, perhaps, early
vesting in an old age pension after five or 10 years
of service.
Heck can’t be sure he
will support replacing the
rigid 20-year retirement
system for the future
force until he sees details
and projected impacts
on retention. But after
13 years of warfare and
seeing the toll multiple
combat tours have had on
individuals, he sees merit
in awarding some retirement benefits sooner than
warriors can earn them
now.
“The fact is we’re
breaking these folks a lot
faster than we used to,”
Heck said. “We can’t think
somebody is going to be
able to stay in for 20 years
now. To me, it’s almost
unimaginable because of
the op tempo, the stresses
we have put them under.
So the idea that somebody
who serves five or 10 or 15
years is able to get a pension, I think, is critically
important.”
The report can’t come
soon enough for Heck
because of his second
priority as chairman to
protect current forces
and retirees from more
“nickel and diming” of pay
and benefits caused by
the 2011 Budget Control
Act and its sequestration
ax. The law’s automatic
spending cuts of $50 billion a year across Department of Defense accounts
are to resume in full again
Oct. 1.
Without relief from the
law, warns Army Gen.
Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, force readiness
will drop lower than he
has seen at any point in
his 40-year career. So
Dempsey and service
chiefs have been urging
Congress at least to slow
compensation growth so
more of those dollars can
be shifted toward training and other readiness
accounts.
But Heck, who was
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general in the Army Reserve in 2013, said despite
tighter budgets “it is
unconscionable to, after
the fact, say ‘I’m sorry but
we need to balance the
budget on your back. So
we’re not going to meet
the promise we made
to you for the sacrifices
you and your family have
made over your term of
service’.”
Heck sees other ways
to make the Department
of Defense more efficient, including merging
Army, Navy and Air Force
medical commands into
one, and doing likewise
with the three military
exchange services that
separately run their own
chains of on-base department stores.
Heck wants to see
these kinds of tough actions taken before considering more proposals
to cap annual pay raises,
dampen housing allowances or boost patient
out-of-pocket costs under
TRICARE, the health insurance program for military families and retirees.
“I’m not one for asking somebody to make a
co-pay when we’re still
pissing away money in a
health care system that
is not finely tuned,” Heck
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As an Army Reserve
physician triaging the
care of arriving wounded
at the combat support
hospital on Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, for half of 2008,
Joe Heck said he saw “exactly how well joint operations can work.”
Where the 2nd Marine
Expeditionary Force was
based, Heck ran the hospital’s emergency support
section with two other
fulltime Army doctors,
as Air Force and Navy
physicians rotated in for
shorter stints. Nurses and
medics took on responsibilities, Heck said, that
wouldn’t have been allowed in a civilian setting
but were so necessary in
war.
Back home “in any intercity level-one trauma
center, it’s very easy to
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“to protect their turfs” in
managing base stores or
overseeing health care,
Heck said. But if the alternative is breaking faith
on compensation, then
the tough choices must be
made, and he will try to
lead colleagues to make
them.
Also broken and wasting billions of dollars, he
said, is the defense procurement system, which
can’t seem to buy weapons without hefty cost
overruns and long delays.
The armed services
committees especially, he
said, must move past the
“parochial, with everybody concerned about the
base or the depot or the
unit in their district” and
“think more strategically”
to what the nation needs.
As budgets tighten,
Heck draws a distinction
between “direct” compensation – pay, allowances,
retirement and health
care — and “indirect”
benefits to include shopping discounts. Last
year, during a hearing on
administration plans to
cut commissary funding
by two thirds over three
years, Heck didn’t reject
more modest cost-saving
ideas to include a doubling of the five percent
surcharge customers pay
at checkout.
Asked about that, Heck
said grocery savings are a
quality of life issue.
“But if push comes
to shove and you’ve
got to make a decision
somewhere — as much
as I would not want to
— that’s the place where
we’re going to need to
look. The indirect benefits, not direct pay and
benefits.”
Better still would be to
end sequestration. Heck
doesn’t sound confident it
will happen but it should,
he said.
“Any budgetary cut
mechanism that takes 50
percent of cuts away from
DoD, which is only about
25 percent of the [entire
federal] budget, is fraught
with problems,” Heck
said. And more of them
are his problems now.
Tom Philpott is a syndicated
columnist. You may write to
him at Military Update, P.O.
Box 231111, Centreville, VA
20120-1111; or at milupdate@
aol.com.
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