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Originally Posted by Scimitar
I would be interested in hearing from some of the QPs; ground truth on what happened at the grass roots level during the Clinton downsizings? What effects where there in SF on a day-to-day basis?
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The timeline really started with the fall of the CSSP. Under Bush the elder the US saw Peace in our time, no need for a large conventional force.
The downsizing was well under way when the first Gulf War kicked up. A number of units that went to the desert knew they were going to be axed after the war. A-10s were saved by that war.
To be fair Clinton only speeded up and deepened what was already underway. Although he and his friends - seemed to take great pleasue in doing so.
Not much of a negative impact for SOF units, money was short but you went anyway.