For a few hundred million dollars, the Army could keep the York plant working at a reduced level of activity on Bradley upgrades and other investments that the active Army and National Guard say they are going to need.
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In the afternoon, the President will award Clinton Romesha, a former active duty Army Staff Sergeant, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.
Documents obtained by NPR show that the active duty Army is projected to miss its goal of 80, 000 recruits by 7, 000 this fall.
Instead of 20 active divisions, the Army would consist of 12 active and eight reserve divisions.
The Center believes that the United States (which today fields 18 active and 10 reserve Army divisions) requires a minimum of 15 active and 9 reserve divisions.
Despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon says both the active-duty Army and the National Guard are exceeding their recruiting goals.
"I think it's great the Army is supporting active duty mothers, " Ruby said.
Former Biafran fighters at the funeral seemed happy with the active role played by the army and the federal government during the burial, our reporter says.
Across Syria a picture is emerging of government forces holding the centre of big towns and the main roads, and the Free Syrian Army becoming increasingly active and almost controlling parts of cities like Homs and areas of the countryside.
And while he's been diverted with nine out of 10 active duty divisions of our Army either going to Iraq, coming back from Iraq, or getting ready to go, North Korea has got nuclear weapons and the world is more dangerous.
With the British army no longer on active service, the police are now in charge.
Since he took office in January 1996, the government has purged the army, cutting the active generals from 23 to eight.
The numbers are sobering: according to Army reporting, 109 active-duty and reserve servicemen and women have taken their own lives this year.
The total for 2011 was 283 -- 165 confirmed active-duty suicides and 118 confirmed not-on-active-duty suicides (82 Army National Guard and 36 Army Reserve).
Other militant groups have also grown more active in recent months, including the Army of the Men of the Naqshabandi Order, which has ties to members of Saddam Hussein's now-outlawed Baath party.
But as the United States downsizes to the smallest peacetime Army since 1939 (10 active duty divisions total), committing 15, 000 men and their associated logistics training to a mission without a termination date is a huge investment in a risky proposition.
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After completing a three-year enlistment on active duty at Fort Hood, Texas, I joined the U.S. Army Reserves in February 1987, and in February 1990, I was deployed for active duty with 279th Maintenance Company, Dallas, Texas, for Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia.
And 143 potential not-on-active-duty suicides were reported (96 Army National Guard and 47 Army Reserve), 117 of which have been confirmed and 26 remain under investigation.
That's why, in my plan, I add two active-duty divisions to the United States Army, not for Iraq, but for our general demands across the globe.
Bloggers who focus on military matters known online as "milbloggers" have been up in arms over new Army regulations about blogs published by active duty troops.
The PLA is still the largest army in the world, with an active force of 2.3m.
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In restructuring its assets, the Army should retain not more than six active duty light divisions to include the two airborne divisions.
Conscripts typically serve far from their hometowns, and the army is believed to have culled potentially disloyal soldiers from active units.
Mr Stansfeld saw active service in Borneo and Northern Ireland during a career in the Army before becoming managing director at an aircraft company.
He's still on active duty, working in the local armory while he waits for the Army to decide what to do with him.
Margarethe (Grethe) joined the US Army and after graduating from college, served seven years on active duty and married a fellow military officer.
The program will be expanded next year with the Air Force, Army and Navy combining funds for two courses to certify 60 active-duty physicians as medical acupuncturists.
On this account, they may, as they have been threatening, formally launch their army into Congo (until now, they have implausibly denied their active involvement).
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