Building the Sys Admin force on the fly in Iraq

(3) "Army Seeks Ways to Bolster Force in Iraq," by Greg Jaffe, Wall Street Journal, 26 April, p. A4.

Another great article on change within DoD from Greg Jaffe. Speaks to realities like the Pentagon "burning through military police" and "running short of construction-engineer units" in its ongoing occupation of Iraq.

I will say it again: we field a first-half team in a league that keeps score until the end of the game. We are watching halftime adjustments here that would make Bill Walsh shudder with anguish, but make them we must. We need the Sys Admin force here and now in Iraq, and if we have to remake the Reserve Component to get it, we will.