{"id":112511,"date":"2021-04-13T11:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112511"},"modified":"2021-04-13T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:28:34","slug":"very-pretty-mr-president-but-can-she-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112511","title":{"rendered":"Very Pretty, Mr. President. But Can She Lead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112512 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ddozen-pretty-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ddozen-pretty-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ddozen-pretty-500x278.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ddozen-pretty.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nPinkley Not Impressed<\/p>\n<p>Several of our Usual Suspects have sent in articles concerning Joe&#8217;s nominee for SecArmy. Christine Wormuth has never served a day in the military, but this is not a prerequisite for the job. According to US Code, &#8220;The Secretary shall, to the greatest extent practicable, be appointed from among persons most highly qualified for the position by reason of background and experience, including persons with appropriate management or leadership experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does she have the required qualifications and leadership experience? That&#8217;s for the Senate to determine during confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden picks 1st woman to be Army secretary<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>If confirmed, Christine Wormuth would be the first woman to hold the job.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ByLuis Martinez<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a historic nomination, President Joe Biden has nominated Christine Wormuth to serve as the secretary of the Army.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed by the Senate, Wormuth &#8212; who once served as the Pentagon&#8217;s top policy official in the final years of the Obama administration &#8212; would be the first woman to serve in the position.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A veteran national security official with previous experience at the Pentagon, Wormuth also served at the director for defense policy at the National Security Council during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>Wormuth has most recently worked as the director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the Rand Corporation and was an influential player in the Biden transition team at the Pentagon where she headed the Biden-Harris Defense Agency Review Team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christine is a true patriot with a dedicated career in service to America and our nation&#8217;s security,&#8221; Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement issued while he is traveling in Berlin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow SecDef Austin&#8217;s approval does little to inspire. Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/biden-picks-1st-woman-army-secretary\/story?id=77029023&amp;cid=clicksource_4380645_3_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed\">ABC News<\/a><br \/>\nThanks, Usual Suspects. You know who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinkley Not Impressed Several of our Usual Suspects have sent in articles concerning Joe&#8217;s nominee for &hellip; <a title=\"Very Pretty, Mr. President. But Can She Lead?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112511\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Very Pretty, Mr. President. But Can She Lead?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,198,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden","category-big-army","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112525,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112511\/revisions\/112525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}