{"id":20768,"date":"2010-10-08T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20768"},"modified":"2010-10-08T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T12:46:07","slug":"petraeus-allows-mwr-concessions-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20768","title":{"rendered":"Petraeus allows MWR concessions back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17369\">COB&#8217;s post about General McCrystal&#8217;s order<\/a> for the fast food and PX concessionaires to remove their facilities from Afghanistan. Well, there&#8217;s a new commander in town and he has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2010\/10\/military-fast-food-afghanistan-petraeus-100610w\/\">somewhat different view of the situation<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese quality-of-life programs remain important to soldiers for stress relief and therefore enhancing military readiness,\u201d Gen. David Petraeus wrote in an Oct. 4 order.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate goal of restoring these concessions to Afghanistan, he wrote, is \u201cboosting residents\u2019 morale on U.S. bases.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So pogues and fobbits everywhere, rejoice. There&#8217;s something to do besides your job. Of course, for you trigger-pullers out there, nothing has changed. Unless they assign a pogue to bring you an ice cream cone in your fighting position.<\/p>\n<p>Petraeus continues;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his new order, Petraeus noted that AAFES concessions must be \u201cright-sized and tailored for an expeditionary force in order to ensure that they do not become distractions to the mission.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, how could that happen? There&#8217;s so much to do inside the Baskin Robbins to further the war effort. Yes, I very much hate pogues. And I have my reasons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably remember COB&#8217;s post about General McCrystal&#8217;s order for the fast food and PX concessionaires &hellip; <a title=\"Petraeus allows MWR concessions back\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20768\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Petraeus allows MWR concessions back<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20768","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=20768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}