{"id":37195,"date":"2013-08-22T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37195"},"modified":"2013-08-22T08:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T12:05:54","slug":"pentagon-car-dealership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37195","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon car dealership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/in-the-loop\/wp\/2013\/08\/20\/need-a-car-dods-got-a-fleet-of-spares\/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost\">Washington Post <\/a>article about the Pentagon IG which has found some new waste, fraud and abuse in which the Pentagon is involved &#8211; buying cars they don&#8217;t need;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The IG found \u201c511 excess nontactical vehicles, including 89 vehicles driven less than 1,000 miles,\u201d meaning many of the cars and trucks owned by the Navy, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, and Washington Headquarters Services are just sitting in their parking spots.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminating these unneeded vehicles would save about $7.2 million over the next 6 years, the report estimates. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, yeah, let&#8217;s raise retirees healthcare costs and raid their Tricare surplus to buy some more new toys we don&#8217;t need. Like I&#8217;ve always said, there&#8217;s plenty waste in the Department of Defense that they could cut before they come after veterans&#8217; wallets, but then they wouldn&#8217;t have a parking lot full of shiny cars they don&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to a Washington Post article about the Pentagon IG which has &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon car dealership\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37195\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon car dealership<\/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-37195","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\/37195","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=37195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}