Fort Knox Community Listening Session This event takes place January 6, 2015 in the Hardin County Schools Performing Arts Center at 5:30 PM, and is open to the public. A live video feed of the Community Listening Session will be made available January 6, 2015 at 5:30 PM on this page. knox.army.mil/fksession.aspx Fort Knox and Department of the Army headquarters officials will hold a Community Listening Session (CLS) at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 6 at the Hardin County Schools Performing Arts Center in Elizabethtown to provide area leaders and citizens a forum to comment on factors they believe Army leadership should consider when making decisions about force reductions and restructuring that could affect the greater Fort Knox area. The Army must reduce and reorganize its force structure to achieve the fiscal reductions required by the Budget Control Act of 2011, while staying postured to best meet the nations defense needs. This also will involve a reduction of at least 40,000 active duty Soldiers for a total end strength of 450,000 active duty Soldiers. If sequestration-level cuts are imposed in fiscal year 2016 and beyond, all components of the Army would be further reduced, with an active duty end strength dropping to 420,000. Fort Knoxs CLS will be one of 30 Army installation CLSs that will take place through March 2015. The comments made at each CLS will be provided to Army leadership for their review and consideration before any force structure decisions are made.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:08:08 +0000