{"id":126328,"date":"2022-05-29T16:28:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=126328"},"modified":"2022-05-29T16:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:28:39","slug":"duckworth-to-save-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=126328","title":{"rendered":"Duckworth To Save the Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126329 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/duckworth-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/duckworth-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/duckworth-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/duckworth-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/duckworth-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/duckworth-2048x1364.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senator Duckworth\u00a0 sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee; given her background this should make sense. None can dispute her military service and sacrifice. She was a pilot in the Illinois Army National Guard when her Blackhawk was hit by an RPG and she suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>This makes her addition to the Defense budget that much more puzzling.<\/p>\n<h3>Key senator eyes clean energy provisions in defense authorization bill<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Bryant Harris<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A lead senator on the Armed Services Committee is introducing legislation to strengthen emissions reduction targets at the world\u2019s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels: the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., introduced the Depend on Domestic (DOD) Clean Energy Act on Thursday to set Pentagon targets for reducing emissions while providing greater funding flexibility to achieve those goals.<\/p>\n<p>Duckworth, who chairs the Senate\u2019s air and land defense panel, has introduced the bill as stand-alone legislation, but she told Defense News she\u2019d like to see it included in the annual defense authorization bill the Armed Services Committee is scheduled to mark up next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [Defense Department] actually is very progressive on this,\u201d said Duckworth. \u201cBack in the [Barack] Obama administration, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus actually did an entire naval training exercise using all biofuels. Every ship, every aircraft, every vehicle ran on biofuel and demonstrated that it would be possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/05\/26\/key-senator-eyes-clean-energy-provisions-in-defense-authorization-bill\/\">Defense News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mabus left a bad taste in his wake for so many reasons, the Green Hornet biofueled jet being one. NAVAIR managed to prove it could trick a jet engine into thinking a bio-JP mix was just JP. At merely $67.50 a gallon. At the time JP was a spendy $2.70-ish per.<\/p>\n<p>Put the good idea fairy away, Tammy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) Senator Duckworth\u00a0 sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee; given her background &hellip; <a title=\"Duckworth To Save the Military\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=126328\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duckworth To Save the Military<\/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":[209,237,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-big-pentagon","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126328","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=126328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}