{"id":25316,"date":"2011-06-29T09:53:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T13:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25316"},"modified":"2011-06-29T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:16:07","slug":"rumor-doctor-on-air-force-spending-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25316","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Doctor on Air Force spending priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard the rumor that the reason Air Force bases are so loaded with niceties that the rest of the military doesn&#8217;t have is because they build the amenities first and then go back to Congress to complain there wasn&#8217;t enough to build an airstrip. Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/the-rumor-doctor\/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348\/does-the-air-force-build-ice-cream-parlors-first-runways-last-1.147764\">Stars &#038; Stripes Rumor Doctor<\/a>, Jeff Schogol, does the leg work to uncover the truth;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force says the myth about runways is pure hogwash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Air Force uses a deliberate process determine which projects deserve limited military construction funds,&#8221; Air Force spokeswoman Maj. Richelle Dowdell said in an email. &#8220;There is a scoring matrix that is used to determine the priorities of those projects, and the impact to the mission plays a big part in that scoring.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that just means that the Army sucks at getting money for building nice things. It probably doesn&#8217;t help the Army that they build in shitholes like Liberty County, GA and the Air Force builds at Fort Walton Beach, FL. <\/p>\n<p>The last line of The Rumor Doctor&#8217;s piece puts the Air Force&#8217;s statement in some doubt, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard the rumor that the reason Air Force bases are so loaded with niceties &hellip; <a title=\"Rumor Doctor on Air Force spending priorities\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25316\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rumor Doctor on Air Force spending priorities<\/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-25316","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\/25316","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=25316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}