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[FC]

C.R.A.P. - Command Reduction of Army Personnel (CRAP)

 

As a result of DOD budget cutbacks, we are forced to reduce the size of the force. Under CRAP, older soldiers will go on early retirement, thus permitting the retention of lower paid soldiers who represent the Army's future.

 

A program to phase out older soldiers via retirement by the end of the current fiscal year will be placed in effect. The program will be known as Retire Active Personnel Early (RAPE).

 

Soldiers who are RAPEd will be given the opportunity to seek civilian employment within the Department of the Army. To that end, RAPEd soldiers will be required to fill out numerous DA Forms (currently in the development, test, and evaluation stage) detailing their education and experience. This phase does not guarantee retired soldiers a civil service position; it does, however, guarantee that the soldier's unique capabilities will be considered before being bypassed in the hiring process. This phase of CRAP is known as Survey of Capabilities of Retired Warriors (SCREW).

 

Soldiers who have been RAPEd and SCREWed may request review of their situation by higher authority. This is the Study by Higher Authority Following Termination (SHAFT) phase.

 

CRAP policy dictates that a soldier may be RAPEd once, SCREWed twice, but may be SHAFTed as many times as the Army leadership deems appropriate.

 

If a soldier follows the above procedures, he or she will be entitled to get Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance (HERPES). As HERPES is considered a benefit payment, any soldier who gets HERPES will no longer be RAPEd or SCREWed by the Army.

 

The Army leadership wishes to assure younger soldiers who remain on active duty that the Army will continue its policy of ensuring that soldiers are well trained through our Special High Intensity Training (SH*T) program. The Army takes pride in the amount of SH*T our soldiers receive and can boast that it gives its soldiers more SH*T than any other service.

 

If a soldier feels he or she does not get enough SH*T, see your commander. Your commander is especially trained to make sure you receive all the SH*T you can stand.

 

 

 

[ShooterTom]

 

Tom

[Doble Troble]

[fritz]

What I love about government agencies is the constant changing of titles of their agencies/programs.

 

You have to really keep current to know what the latest title (of an agency/program) that you have been participating in is right now.

 

I believe they keep changing the titles (thus the abbreviations) in order to further confuse those participating.

 

An example is the farm bills that establish new programs each year. Another abbreviation that we have to learn.

 

It isn't just the federal government and the military that does this name changing. Mrs fritz used to work for the Texas Department of Health, she now works for the State Department of Health Services. She didn't change jobs.

 

I used to participate in farm programs with the ASCS, it's now the FSA. It started out as the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act), the agency that came out of the dust bowl days was the Soil Conservation Service, now the NRCS.

 

They all do what they did when founded, but name changes came about at the whimsy of the government. Supposedly to more clearly define what the agency does.

 

But it's so stupid that the AAA, changed to ASCS, then to FSA, still "adjusts" agriculture, the NRCS still "conserves soil", and the Health Department still does the same things with health needs.

 

Why did they have to change the names?

 

Hell, I know, it's to make them look more important today. Like they are now a "new, improved version" (don't you love that phrase?)

 

fritz

[karlunity]

You think that is unique to the army?

 

Ha..I started as a history teacher, if I would let the bean counters get away with it, which I won't, they would title me a "Social science educator" Gad!!!!

 

Karl

[fritz]

Regarding titles, Popeye said it best--"I yam what I yam, and I yam a sailor man!"

 

fritz

[RGRWJB]

LOL