{"id":36667,"date":"2013-07-17T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36667"},"modified":"2013-07-17T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:01:14","slug":"hagel-to-cut-20-off-the-top-at-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36667","title":{"rendered":"Hagel to cut 20% off the top at Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Hagel talked to the troops yesterday at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, FL and he told them that he&#8217;s calling for a 20% haircut at the Pentagon &#8211; to cut staff positions in the bloated bureaucracy. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/hagel-orders-20-percent-cut-in-pentagon-top-brass-senior-civilians\/2013\/07\/16\/7a004788-ee56-11e2-8163-2c7021381a75_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hagel\u2019s directive could force the Pentagon and military command staffs to shed an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 jobs. That\u2019s a tiny percentage of the Defense Department\u2019s 2.1 million active-duty troops and civilian employees, but analysts said it would be a symbolically important trimming of the upper branches of the bureaucracy, which has proved to be resistant to past pruning attempts.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Hagel said the cutbacks would apply to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff, as well as Pentagon headquarters staffs for the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>He did not give further details. It was unclear whether his order also would apply to defense contractors assigned to those offices or the military\u2019s combatant command staffs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s good start, it&#8217;s in the neighborhood where the cuts need to happen. Anything that saves operational jobs makes more sense than eroding the benefits for retention purposes. We need to keep more actual Rangers more than we need the PowerPoint variety.<\/p>\n<p>DoD estimates that the cuts to staffs will result in a $1.5 &#8211; $2 billion savings, but the plan is scheduled to happen before 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Hagel talked to the troops yesterday at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, FL and he told &hellip; <a title=\"Hagel to cut 20% off the top at Pentagon\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36667\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hagel to cut 20% off the top at Pentagon<\/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-36667","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\/36667","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=36667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}