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New Army report projects worst-case cuts of up to 16,000 soldiers from JBLM
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/06/26/3263085/new-army-report-projects-cuts.html?sp=/99/296/331/354/New Army report projects worst-case cuts of up to 16,000 soldiers from JBLM
By Adam Ashton
Staff writer
June 26, 2014
A decade of growth at Joint Base Lewis-McChord could be wiped away by 2017 if the Army carries out severe force reductions in the South Sound as described in a planning document released Thursday.
In a worst-case scenario, JBLM would lose about 16,000 active-duty military positions from its peak strength in 2011. That would include about 5,400 soldiers already gone through force reductions over the past two years.
That would leave the base with about 16,000 active-duty soldiers three years from now, fewer than it had in 2001 when the Army was building up its first Stryker brigades at the South Sound Army installation prior to the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The cuts would ripple out in Pierce and Thurston counties, likely removing about $971 million in annual income from the region as well as reducing sales tax receipts by about $17.4 million, according to the study.
