Tighter budget inspires services to rethink their workforce
Tuesday - 3/27/2012, 11:30am EDT   Download mp3   "We're moving
sailors from desk jobs to the pier," said Navy Secretary Ray
Mabus. "About 2,000 sailors are going back to the piers just to
do maintenance and things like that that have been suffering in
the past."   "If you look at the composition of the Marine Corps
that will be there in four years, it's going to be a different
composition," Mabus said. "We're going to have more people in
cyber, more people in special operations, special operation
enablers and things like that."   "That's one side of the coin,"
Mabus said. "On the other side, those sailors that we do have
have to be really good at what they do, and they have to be
really versatile in the number of things they're able to do."
"It's one of the exceptions we've made to bringing people in,"
he said. "In all, when we're through, we're going to bring in
about 5,000 acquisition professionals. We're over halfway
there."   "When you have a