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Originally Posted by Tweetdrvr
As we have drawn down, the need for two separate but equal commissioning programs has made it reasonable for them to shut down TYS and move AMS to Maxwell. The ANG conspiracy theorists out there will say this is a move to take away some measure of independence from the ANG as we move into the TFI future force. A couple of recent grads have told me they are talking about eventually consolidating AMS and OTS into one course. If the ANG has been able to do it in half the time (due to most folks having prior service and to make the civilian employers happy), then somewhere in there are some efficiencies of time the big blue institution can use to spend less money commissioning folks. 9 weeks seems to be the number for the new course. Not so long as to make civillian employers too unhappy, and probably a little less flicker ball and more focus on pushups for the active duty.
On the subject of drawdown, do any of you know if the DOD is going to be closing some state ANG units, or consolidating them?
Or are the ANG/Reserve units going to be getting -more- work, as the active duty gets drawn down and some of the work gets shifted to the Guard?