{"id":35732,"date":"2013-05-20T07:03:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35732"},"modified":"2013-05-20T07:10:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T11:10:58","slug":"discharges-of-combat-troops-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35732","title":{"rendered":"Discharges of combat troops increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that discharges for minor offenses are on the rise in the military in recent months. <\/p>\n

The newspaper reported Sunday that the investigation based on Army data found that annual misconduct discharges have increased more than 25 percent since 2009, mirroring the rise in wounded. Among combat troops, the increase is even sharper.<\/p>\n

Total discharges at the eight Army posts that house most of the service’s combat units have increased 67 percent since 2009.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been working on this since the 70s, and I have never seen anything like this,” said Mark Waple, a retired Army officer who now tries military cases as a civilian lawyer near North Carolina’s Fort Bragg. “There seems to be a propensity to use minor misconduct for separation, even for service members who are decorated in combat and injured.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Marty Dempsey, disagrees that the military is drawing down for financial by booting their wounded first;<\/p>\n

“I can tell you that 10-plus years of war has placed significant stress on many of our service members, sometimes manifesting itself in their health and even their discipline,” he said. “We go to great lengths to try to rehabilitate those who don’t meet or maintain required standards prior to initiating separation.”<\/p>\n

An Army spokesman said the military branch does not track the number of soldiers wounded in war who were later kicked out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess that’s Marty’s way of reassuring us that the government isn’t balancing the budget on the backs of veterans, like the President told us he wouldn’t, but then did. <\/p>\n

I hope these generals remember that it was the combat veterans who stayed after Vietnam who trained the force that went to Iraq in 1991. The Colin Powells, the Schwarzkopfs, the McMasters, and the nameless thousands who became squad leaders and platoon sergeants and taught my generation how to soldier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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