U.S. Joint Forces Command To Cut 2,300 Employees To Reduce Costs

The U.S. Joint Forces Command in Virginia has announced that 2,300 employees will be laid off as a result of cost-cutting efforts from the Pentagon.

The cuts will take place across the country, with the majority coming from the Joint Command’s headquarters in Southeast Virginia. Other cuts include: more than 30 positions at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada; and more than a quarter of the Joint Command’s staff in Tampa, where there are “a couple hundred” employees, according to a spokeswoman from MacDill Air Force Base.

Contractors will take the biggest hit, as 2,000 of them are laid off as a result of the budget cuts.

General Ray Odierno told reporters, “The changes are significant. Going forward we are not simply trimming down each staff element. We are making a major departure from past organization design, procedure and mindset to more effectively execute the core functions and sustain the jointness we’ve worked so hard to achieve in the past.”