{"id":35793,"date":"2013-05-23T17:41:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35793"},"modified":"2013-05-23T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:41:32","slug":"hagel-ends-furloughs-for-sharp-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35793","title":{"rendered":"Hagel ends furloughs for SHARP staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the Pentagon is completely married to this idea of having a sexual harassment\/assault response program, because according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/hagel-no-furloughs-for-sexual-assault-prevention-staff-1.222114\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has mandated that SHARP staff is immune from furloughs;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Hagel last week ordered the military to review and recertify all 25,000 personnel working in programs to prevent sexual assault and help victims. The announcement followed a Pentagon announcement last week that a sexual assault response coordinator at Fort Hood, Texas, was being investigated for pandering and sexual assault. And earlier this month, an Air Force officer who oversaw that service\u2019s sexual assault response branch was charged with sexual battery, accused of approaching a women in an Arlington, Va., parking lot and grabbing her breasts and buttocks.<\/p>\n<p>Among other measures, Hagel also ordered a DOD-wide search of work areas for \u201cdegrading, offensive materials\u201d and told the Pentagon\u2019s acting general counsel to evaluate a program to provide military attorneys to advocate for victims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It kind of reminds me of anti-gun legislation &#8211; they&#8217;re trying to look like they&#8217;re doing something, anything just to look busy &#8211; like those staff NCOs who walk around all day with clipboards and a scowl so people think they&#8217;re busy when they&#8217;re only making circuits to the snack bar. But it&#8217;s good that Hagel is really working to spend his dwindling budget in a way that contributes to national defense instead of something stupid. That was sarcasm, in case you missed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the Pentagon is completely married to this idea of having a sexual harassment\/assault response &hellip; <a title=\"Hagel ends furloughs for SHARP staff\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35793\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hagel ends furloughs for SHARP staff<\/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":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35793","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=35793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}