{"id":27816,"date":"2011-12-06T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27816"},"modified":"2011-12-06T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:51:10","slug":"cue-the-village-peple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27816","title":{"rendered":"Cue The Village People!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories that makes me proud to be a Navy Vet&#8230;<strong> and not be currently serving!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/navy-usda-tout-largest-government-biofuel-purchase-1.162515\" target=\"_blank\">Our fleet will smell like fried chicken.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Domestically produced biofuels will lessen the military\u2019s dependence on petroleum form overseas and \u201cmake us better war fighters,\u201d Mabus said. What it won\u2019t do \u2013 at least in the short term \u2013 is save any money in an era of constrained budgets. The $12 million purchase equates to a per-gallon cost of about $26. Mixed 50\/50 with conventional fuel, as the Navy plans to use it, the cost is around $15 a gallon, Mabus said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2011\/11\/navy-jumper-shortage-some-recruits-wrong-size-crackerjack-112011w\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our Sailors will be well dressed for the occasion.<\/a> <strong>NOT!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s black and white and in short supply all over? The service dress blue jumper.<\/p>\n<p>For the past three months, a production problem has left the Navy shorthanded in five common sizes of the SDB jumper, the top half of the winter crackerjacks. These male-only uniforms are missing from the racks of some uniform stores, and some recruits are graduating from boot camp without jumpers in their size.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories that makes me proud to be a Navy Vet&#8230; and not be currently serving! &hellip; <a title=\"Cue The Village People!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27816\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cue The Village People!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}