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The Army is set to reduce its end strength by an additional 40,000 troops over the next two years, including the elimination of 17,000 civilian employees, according to reports.The service is in the midst of a force reduction as a result of budget cuts and the winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plans are to shrink the Army from a peak of 570,000 soldiers to 450,000, rather than bottoming out at 490,000 as originally planned. The service’s…
