Army Chief of Staff Raymond Odierno made his way to Fort Riley today and addressed concerns about deep cuts in Pentagon spending.
Kansas First News Reporter Monica Castro finds out if those cuts will affect the Big Red One.
Odierno says he would be surprised if Fort Riley is impacted by cuts. He says as a whole the army is looking at an 80,000 person reduction starting this year and will last till 2017.
He explains the 6 year reduction process will be slow in order to make sure it has the right size force to continue its mission in Afghanistan.
The Army is continuing to look at what brigades and other units will be affected by the cuts. He believes Fort Riley shouldn't see any major changes.
Odierno says "you can see the investment that we have made at Fort Riley. Fort Riley is considered to be one of our enduring installations and it's one of our installations where we feel we have an incredible capacity to train, a capacity to take care of our soldiers and that will certainly be a large consideration as we go through this process."
Also, during his visit on post Odierno spent time meeting military families and also gave his evaluation of the post exercise, Unified Endeavor, which prepares soldiers for future deployments to Afghanistan.
Since 2005, the Army has invested more than a billion dollars on new buildings and training sites to handle the influx of soliders at Fort Riley.
He says the army will look at the reduction of civilian jobs and contractors to meet budget requirements.
