Inland Empire Progressive

Ranking Structure Reform is one of the most direct ways to cut cost in the defense department. The current ranking structure is too bureaucratic in both the enlisted and officer ranks. Getting rid of the rank of Private and 2nd Lieutenant will save several million dollars in personnel costs because they are duplicate ranks. I would try to reform the current ranks from the current 9 grades down to 6. I would also reform the General Ranks from the current 4 down to 2. I remember a little ditty that I was taught in the Marine Corps to remember the General Ranks: Be My Little General. Which is acronym for Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, and General.

  Why Northrop Grumman has a Missle Engineering Center in San Bernardino is anybody's guess.  Before Norton Air Force Base was decommissioned in 1994, Northrup Grumman worked on and tested missle design programs. It still operates hangars there. Northrup Grumman says  : "The Missile Engineering Center serves as a vital proving ground for missile technology development and provides support to several key government missile programs. The center's flagship programs include the ICBM Minuteman III modernization program where Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor responsible for maintaining, sustaining and modernizing the nation's fleet of Minuteman III missiles; and the Kinetic Energy Interceptor program – a critical boost/ascent or midcourse-phase missile defense program where Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor developing and testing this capability." I have never seen a missle launch from the former Air Force b...