{"id":145886,"date":"2023-08-14T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145886"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:00:47","slug":"flag-promotions-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145886","title":{"rendered":"Flag Promotions Threatened!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145887 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cq-brown-300x177.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cq-brown-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cq-brown.png 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Charles Q. Brown Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>650 Military Promotions Threatened as Senator Shows No Signs of Relenting<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin and Rebecca Kheel<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 650 general and flag officer promotions could be delayed this year by a legislative hold on Capitol Hill imposed by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., over military abortion policies, according to the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville\u2019s hold could not only hold up the promotions of rank and position &#8212; the vast majority of the 852 total officers at those ranks &#8212; but is also threatening recent major nominations for a new Joint Chiefs chairman and Marine Corps commandant, as well as the growing list of other key replacements.<\/p>\n<p>The potential backlog is causing increasing concern inside the Pentagon, as Tuberville refuses to back down in his opposition to the military providing leave for women to have civilian abortion care. Without those confirmations, a senior defense official told Military.com that the vast majority of the military&#8217;s general and flag officer positions &#8220;could be vacant at a time when our military is expected to defend the nation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2023\/06\/02\/650-military-promotions-threatened-senator-shows-no-signs-of-relenting.html\">Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dire warnings from an unnamed DOD bureaucrat, surprise. The actual impact is now Tier Two sycophants will chair the several branches instead of Tier One. While having no real effect to the military&#8217;s condition it is an affront to Joe&#8217;s Handlers. To the authors&#8217; credit mention <em>is<\/em> made of the normal ascension process some call the chain of command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Q. Brown Jr. 650 Military Promotions Threatened as Senator Shows No Signs of Relenting Military.com &hellip; <a title=\"Flag Promotions Threatened!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=145886\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flag Promotions Threatened!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":145887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145886","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=145886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}