COLORADO SPRINGS — Fort Carson will lose 365 soldiers by 2017 according to details trickling out of Army headquarters Thursday morning about how the military will cut $95 billion over the next 10 years including roughly 40,000 soldiers.
The cuts are part of the 2011 Budget Control Act, or sequestration, and officials and politicians in Colorado Springs have been among those in the nation anxiously awaiting the results.
Congressman Doug Lamborn said that the size of the cuts at Fort Carson indicates that Colorado and Fort Carson are viewed favorably by the Department of Defense and the Army. Lamborn has held office in the Colorado Springs-centered district since 2007. He thanked the Keep Carson Strong movement for its efforts to protect the post from cuts.
Fort Carson seems to have fared much better than other military installations across the country that were hit harder by the reduction in forces.
Some posts with larger troop reductions include Fort Benning, Ga., Fort Hood, Texas and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Each of the three installations will reportedly lose at least 2,600 troops.
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