{"id":26953,"date":"2011-10-11T10:38:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26953"},"modified":"2011-10-11T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:38:17","slug":"epa-to-cut-three-brigades-of-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26953","title":{"rendered":"EPA to cut three brigades of lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, just joking. Actually the Army is getting ready for the hatchet to fall on their troop strength according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/10\/10\/us-army-general-warns-cuts-could-be-made-in-combat-brigades\/?test=latestnews\">Fox News link<\/a> from Old Trooper;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army&#8217;s chief of staff, says officials are developing plans to cut spending, but are committed to ensuring the force is properly trained, staffed and equipped to defend the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is slated to cut $450 billion over 10 years, but the reductions could be doubled if Congress fails to find $1.5 trillion in savings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Originally, the Ranger Battalions were supposed to provide a cadre of highly trained NCOs that would rebuild the Army in the next war after Vietnam. It might be time to revive that plan, not with the current Ranger Battalions, but another unit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/10\/defense-cut-projections-seen-as-risk-to-force-recr\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> warns that massive slashing of the defense budget will have an adverse effect on recruiting;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the table: higher health care premiums and a shift of the military\u2019s guaranteed pension benefits to an investment-based 401(k)-type of retirement savings plan.<\/p>\n<p>John Raughter, spokesman for the 2.4-million-member American Legion, said the nation\u2019s largest veterans group is increasingly concerned about how deep reductions will affect recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a major concern to us,\u201d Mr. Raughter said. \u201cWhen you start tinkering with Tricare [the military\u2019s health care system] and the military retirement systems, it\u2019s basically a slap in the face. The system is basically saying your service tomorrow is not as valuable as our service was yesterday.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, as long as the lawyers at EPA are safe, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, just joking. Actually the Army is getting ready for the hatchet to fall on their &hellip; <a title=\"EPA to cut three brigades of lawyers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26953\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EPA to cut three brigades of lawyers<\/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":[84,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953","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=26953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}