Drastically shrink the military officer corps

Over the past 12 years, the officer/enlisted ratio in the US military has slipped from one officer for every six enlisted; to almost one officer for four enlisted. It was 1:10 during World War II. Meanwhile, the services complain that intelligent enlisted people leave the service because of micromanagement. Many enlisted have college degrees and become angry that they earn 50% less for doing jobs similar to officers. Officers are supposed to be executives; do we need one executive to oversee every four enlisted? There are proposals to drastically slash the officer corps to 1:20, a level found in many effective armies. While major cuts are debatable, our military should at least return to the 1:6 ratio of 1990, which would require conversion of 60,000 active officer positions to enlisted ranks This will save $2 billion a year once fully implemented. Fortunately, the Congressional Budget Office already produced a study on this in 2000. Adopt the Congressional Budget Office findings.