{"id":14137,"date":"2009-09-03T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T23:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14137"},"modified":"2009-09-03T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T23:30:46","slug":"obama-extends-combat-tours-of-some-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14137","title":{"rendered":"Obama extends combat tours of some troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/09\/03\/gates-faces-tough-mission-afghanistan-new-strategy-succeed\/?test=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a> announces that some troops have had their combat tours in Afghanistan extended by the Obama Administration;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Members of the 82nd Airborne Division headquarters serving in Afghanistan have been told their tours will be extended by 52 days from 12 months to nearly 14 months.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of officers and non-commissioned soldiers were told this weekend that they would have to stay longer so that their replacements in the 101st Airborne Division could have 12 months at home &#8212; a sign at how stretched the forces remain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering what Democrats said when President Bush did the same thing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/11\/AR2007041100615_2.html\">Washington Post<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Army has attempted in vain to stabilize a rotational scheme for an unstable and open-ended strategy,&#8221; said  Carl M. Levin (Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. &#8220;Once again, the failures of this administration are being underwritten by our troops.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p> Rep. Ike Skelton (Mo.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said the new policy will have &#8220;a chilling effect on recruiting, retention and readiness.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama also criticized Bush for extending combat tours &#8211; but I guess that was before he realized that the real world is different from the rhetorical flourishes of a campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News announces that some troops have had their combat tours in Afghanistan extended by the &hellip; <a title=\"Obama extends combat tours of some troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14137\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama extends combat tours of some troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}