{"id":31195,"date":"2012-07-31T19:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T23:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31195"},"modified":"2012-07-31T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T23:19:40","slug":"training-to-increase-for-guard-and-reserve-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31195","title":{"rendered":"Training to increase for Guard and Reserve troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know you guys have been discussing the cuts that are being eyed to the pay of National Guard troops. I noticed that some of you were complaining, and rightly so, about the time you spend during the week preparing for your drills. Well, I’m sure this won’t do much for retention, either. From the Stars & Stripes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[Guard and Reserve soldiers] will keep preparing for war, with training periods away from home each year that would grow from a two-week block to up to seven weeks, Gen. Ray Odierno, Army chief of staff said in an interview Monday with USA Today. Drilling one weekend a month would continue.<\/p>\n

“As they go through it, their readiness will increase, the number of days training will increase,” Odierno said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the Pentagon is mouthing the words that they’re ready to accept the retention losses;<\/p>\n

“You might have some guys who will be OK with that and some people who will part ways,” [Army Maj. Michael] Moricas said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They claim that the upside for soldiers is their five-year plans, so the troops will know when their training is coming up. Of course, they’ll also know if they should stay or leave the service. The brass acts like retention is a steady number that won’t changed because of their policies. What they’re actually admitting is that, by cutting the active force to make the White House demands on their manpower reductions will impact readiness. <\/p>\n

This has the fingerprints of the White House all over it. In their planning, everything remains constant irrespective of the effect their planning will have – like planning on higher tobacco taxes funding their healthcare not figuring that people will quit smoking and that revenue won’t come in like they thought it would.<\/p>\n

So, by planning readiness based on the Guard and Reserves manpower remaining constant, isn’t planning at all. Just hoping with your fingers crossed that people are too stupid to toss their Reserve and Guard careers aside.<\/p>\n

Odierno said that National Guard members and reservists acquired combat skills the Army sorely needs now as it tries to save money by reducing its ranks of full-time soldiers from 570,000 to 490,000 by 2017, and cuts the number of combat brigades from 45 to 32.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it only makes sense that you drive those skills that “the Army sorely needs” away from military service. Or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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