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So this happened, but I feel it’s just delaying the inevitable.House lawmakers back big military pay raise, block plans to cut 18,000 defense medical jobs
The draft of the annual defense authorization bill also includes new protections for sexual assault victims and new help for unemployed military spouses.www.militarytimes.com
Big Hoss
"But they did break with military and administration plans to shift nearly 18,000 uniformed medical billets — doctors, nurses, dentists and other specialists — into civilian jobs to increase the number of warfighting positions within the armed forces.
The draft bill would prohibit the Defense Department from making any such moves until medical end strength until analyses are conducted and officials have reported back on the availability of health care services around stateside military bases."
Yeah it sounds like it will still move forward but not until more data is available about the amount of care needed. I could see commander's putting more emphasis on DWV's to show necessity in the near future.
I'm not surprised by this whole thing. The amount of O-6 dentists that are just doing admin in Army DENTAC seems really inefficient. There's a lot of fat that could be trimmed in the military medical system in its current form.