Roughead: Navy To Cut 3,000 Sailors From The Force This Summer

By Dan Taylor / June 16, 2011 at 7:03 PM
The Navy will cut 3,000 sailors from the force over the summer because the service is doing too good a job of retaining personnel and doesn't have space for them all, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said today. "I have a retention problem," Roughead said at an event in Washington hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "My retention problem is that I have too many people in the Navy. In fact, this summer we are...

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