“Deploy or Depart.” - Pentagon Cuts 21,000 Unfit Non-Deployable Troops

Last year, the Pentagon announced a new policy colloquially referred to as “deploy or depart.” Roughly speaking, if you weren’t in the proper shape to deploy to the field, you were going to be cut from the military.

Now, for roughly 21,000 troops, that means they’re no longer with the U.S. armed forces.

That’s the takeaway from testimony by acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, in which he said that’s the number of troops that have been cut from the rolls since the policy began last summer.

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