{"id":31151,"date":"2012-07-30T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31151"},"modified":"2012-07-30T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:08:26","slug":"navy-has-manpower-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31151","title":{"rendered":"Navy has manpower problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard how the Navy is giving pink slips to sailors in anticipation of pending DoD plans to not balance the budget on the Defense Department. Well, I wonder how they plan to cut personnel when they can&#8217;t find enough people to go to sea, ya know kind of the whole idea of having a Navy in the first place. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/navy\/navy-taking-measures-to-fill-undermanned-at-sea-billets-1.184368\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> says;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the past six months, the service has instituted measures to address gaps in critical positions, offering cash and other perks to compel sailors to head back out to sea. While those measures are still taking hold, Navy officials said last week that more must be done to address the at-sea manning issue \u2014 including involuntary measures \u2014 as nearly one-third of its total enlisted ratings are currently unfilled.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, existing programs are being expanded and new measures implemented to ensure these billets are staffed properly, according to a Navy news release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, they&#8217;re going to offer people bonuses to go to sea? Funny, but I was under the impression  that going to sea was part of being in the Navy. Every time I worked with the Navy, it involved being on a boat and floating around on big bodies of water. So maybe my view of the Navy is a little skewed, ya know, based on my experiences. It must be because everyone in the Navy is secretly a SEAL, so they don&#8217;t have time to go to sea, I guess. Right, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23631\">Joseph Cryer<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard how the Navy is giving pink slips to sailors in anticipation of pending &hellip; <a title=\"Navy has manpower problems\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31151\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy has manpower problems<\/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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31151","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=31151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}