{"id":41250,"date":"2022-07-29T14:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/07\/29\/army-may-restructure-brigade-combat-teams-amid-recruiting-woes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:34:00","slug":"army-may-restructure-brigade-combat-teams-amid-recruiting-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2022\/07\/29\/army-may-restructure-brigade-combat-teams-amid-recruiting-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Army may restructure brigade combat teams amid recruiting woes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Army rolls toward a major end strength shortfall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2022\/07\/26\/army-plans-prep-course-to-help-hopeful-soldiers-lose-weight-improve-test-scores\/\" target=\"_blank\">driven by a recruiting crisis<\/a>, the service has been quietly studying where it can afford to cut personnel to ensure its combat formations stay manned even as numbers plunge, its top general told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gen. 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McConville insisted that the Army can avoid shuttering BCTs and find savings elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve done what\u2019s called a \u2018deep dive,\u2019 or we used to call it night court&#8230;with the end strength that we have,\u201d explained McConville. \u201cWe are taking a look at every single position in United States, we\u2019ve done that analysis, and we\u2019ve found out where there\u2019s positions that we don\u2019t necessarily require.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The general said \u201cwe can maintain the [BCTs],\u201d but that doing so might also require restructuring them in order to eliminate redundant capabilities from other types of units that the service is expanding, like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/land\/2022\/03\/30\/us-armys-short-range-air-defense-capability-will-grow-to-a-battalion-by-years-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">air and missile defense [units]<\/a>&#8230;specifically concerned with countering lethal drones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service\u2019s brigade combat teams have grown in size over the past decade, beginning with the addition of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/106373\/brigade_combat_teams_cut_at_10_posts_will_help_other_bcts_grow\" target=\"_blank\">third maneuver battalion to each in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as the budget night courts eventually discovered, there\u2019s only so much fat the service can trim before getting to the bone, according to force structure expert and retired Marine Col. Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He thinks the Army can save a few thousand soldiers with targeted cuts to other units and headquarters, but he doubts any BCT restructuring that doesn\u2019t eliminate the third maneuver battalion, which he considers unlikely, \u201cwill amount to much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMore likely,\u201d Cancian told Army Times in an email, \u201cthe Army will understaff all of its units while it waits for recruiting to turn around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that move could result in uneven manning across the Army, with personnel shuffling between BCTs to ensure deploying units have enough soldiers to fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another option could be to reduce the size of some of the service\u2019s Security Force Assistance Brigades to replenish BCTs with their experienced combat arms 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