{"id":26104,"date":"2011-08-05T14:39:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26104"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:39:42","slug":"army-to-shorten-deployments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26104","title":{"rendered":"Army to shorten deployments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/army-to-begin-9-month-deployments-in-january-1.151310\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that next year they&#8217;ll shorten deployments to nine months;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The deployment announcement is not a result of impending troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, said Army spokesman Lt. Col. Craig Ratcliff. Rather, he said, it\u2019s the result of studies showing how to effectively deploy forces while making the wellbeing of soldiers a priority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The shortened deployments won&#8217;t effect troops deploying before the first of the year, though. Even though the order didn&#8217;t mention dwell times, Col. Ratcliff thinks it&#8217;s only a matter of time, given the shortened deployments;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOver the long term we\u2019re on a glide path to increasing dwell times,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Jeff Schogol for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes reports that next year they&#8217;ll shorten deployments to nine months; The deployment &hellip; <a title=\"Army to shorten deployments\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26104\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army to shorten deployments<\/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-26104","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\/26104","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=26104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}