{"id":27220,"date":"2011-10-28T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27220"},"modified":"2011-10-28T09:38:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:38:28","slug":"congress-told-that-white-house-plans-will-decimate-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27220","title":{"rendered":"Congress told that White House plans will decimate Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/27\/general-cuts-risk-marines-war-fighting-missions\/\">Washington Times<\/a> reports that the assistant commadant of the Marine Corps told Congress yesterday that plans to cut the force to 150,000 Marines will seriously impact their ability to accomplish an assigned mission;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA hundred and fifty thousand would put us below the level that\u2019s necessary to support a single contingency,\u201d said Gen. Joseph Dunford, who as assistant commandant is the nation\u2019s No. 2 Marine.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the Marines, known as America\u2019s 911 response force, would be limited in carrying out an array of special missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not be there to deter our potential adversaries,\u201d he told the House Armed Services subcommittee on readiness. \u201cWe won\u2019t be there to assure our potential friends or to assure our allies. And we certainly won\u2019t be there to contain small crises before they become major conflagrations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why the General thinks that the USMC&#8217;s ability to fight the next war is important at all to either Congress or the White House, or even the Defense Department. They&#8217;re looking for ways to cutspending in a way that doesn&#8217;t directly affect the idiot voters who don&#8217;t see the need for a strong military.<\/p>\n<p>I commend the general for telling it like it is, speaking truth to power, but he might as well go piss up a rope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that the assistant commadant of the Marine Corps told Congress yesterday that &hellip; <a title=\"Congress told that White House plans will decimate Corps\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27220\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress told that White House plans will decimate Corps<\/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":[46,89,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27220","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=27220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}