{"id":26034,"date":"2011-08-01T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26034"},"modified":"2011-08-01T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:07:12","slug":"af-to-end-leadership-training-for-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26034","title":{"rendered":"AF to end leadership training for LTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, that makes sense, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/07\/air-force-officer-leadership-training-changes-073011w\/\">why would lieutenants need leadership training<\/a>? I mean they&#8217;re already the smartest people on the planet&#8230;if you don&#8217;t believe me ask one. The Air Force plans on saving $12 million a year by dropping leadership training for the already least-prepared leaders on the planet;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The decision to consolidate the schools came down from the four-stars last month at their summer Corona meeting, held this year at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Cost cutting and course duplication were the primary reasons behind closing [Air and Space Basic Course for lieutenants], according to Col. Terrance McCaffrey, who oversees both programs as commandant of Squadron Officer College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WTF are the services thinking when they decide that cutting core courses is fiscally sound policy? So their leaders are going to be really just Joes with a college education &#8211; they might as well issue them a each case of hand grenades, too. There are millions of things that can be cut out of the budget without shooting retention and performance in the head with this kind of four-star logic. Finding another way to cut 12 million bucks out of their budget &#8211; like making four-stars drive themselves to work in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, that makes sense, why would lieutenants need leadership training? I mean they&#8217;re already the smartest &hellip; <a title=\"AF to end leadership training for LTs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26034\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AF to end leadership training for LTs<\/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-26034","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\/26034","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=26034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}