{"id":34190,"date":"2013-02-16T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T12:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34190"},"modified":"2013-02-16T08:56:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T12:56:54","slug":"defense-cuts-may-extend-combat-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34190","title":{"rendered":"Defense cuts may extend combat tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/02\/16\/army-may-have-to-extend-afghanistan-deployments-as-budget-cuts-will-limit\/\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Army chief of Staff Ray Odierno announced that troops may have their combat tours to Afghanistan extended next year so that the Defense Department can save some money;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We will try to divert money so we do not have to extend people in Afghanistan,&#8221; Odierno told a conference at the Brookings Institution in Washington. &#8220;That&#8217;s a very big concern of mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that right now the Army is facing a shortfall of as much as $8 billion in operating funds for Afghanistan, and there could be an additional $5.4 billion in cuts if Congress can&#8217;t resolve a budget standoff and automatic reductions &#8212; called sequester &#8212; go into effect.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that whole &#8220;we won&#8217;t balance the budget on the backs of veterans&#8221; thing is looking more like complete bullshit everyday. Maybe they&#8217;ll come up with a shiny new medal for folks who were screwed because our government can&#8217;t balance the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Army chief of Staff Ray Odierno announced that troops may have their &hellip; <a title=\"Defense cuts may extend combat tours\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34190\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defense cuts may extend combat tours<\/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":[46,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34190","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=34190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}