# Shrinking the US Military News Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-the-us-military-news-thread/1023088>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 16, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-the-us-military-news-thread/1023088 "2025-09-16T13:56:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-the-us-military-news-thread/1023088/21 "2025-10-10T19:44:52Z")

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Mildly tangential to the primary topic of discussion but…

Reductions in cybersecurity training:

> **[Pentagon relaxes military cybersecurity training](https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/pentagon_relaxes_military_cybersecurity_training/)**
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> : Beards, body fat, and cyber refreshers now frowned upon

Moving people from cybersecurity to immigration enforcement:

> **[Hundreds of DHS staff face reassignments to border security, immigration](https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/10/hundreds-dhs-staff-face-reassignments-border-security-immigration/408707/)**
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> Affected workers — including people in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — have been given a week to respond or risk termination from federal service.

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