{"id":37204,"date":"2013-08-22T11:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37204"},"modified":"2013-08-22T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:45:29","slug":"soldiers-army-doesnt-love-me-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37204","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers; Army doesn’t love me back"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Army Times<\/a> reports that a recent survey says that a little less than half of soldiers says the Army isn’t as committed to them as they are to the Army.<\/p>\n

This is a 6 percent increase \u2014 among troops in both components \u2014 since 2010, according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lt. Gen. David Perkins, commanding general of the Combined Arms Center, which includes the Center for Army Leadership, said it\u2019s important for senior leaders to understand how soldiers are feeling.<\/p>\n

He cited captains as an example.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came into an Army that was expanding, the budget for the Army was going up, they were deploying, they were engaged in their craft,\u201d Perkins said. \u201cBut what has happened in this last year? The Army is downsizing to 490,000, brigades are going away, they see we\u2019re conducting [selective early retirement boards] for colonels, they see the resourcing of the Army is going down. So the future of the Army, in their mind, is very different from when they signed up. They\u2019re no longer in a growth industry, quite honestly.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah,I’m going to call Bullshit on that, general. if you look at what has been happening among the force over the last three years or so, you’d have noticed that the Sergeant Major of the Army went to Afghanistan and lectured soldiers on their cultural sensitivity as the reason they were being killed by their “allies”. But the real reason, it turns out is that the troops in the war zone weren’t allowed to carry weapons. <\/p>\n

Then the troops watch the Defense Department kick a few hundred thousand veterans off of Tricare Prime while raising their healthcare costs and raiding the $770 million Tricare surplus.<\/p>\n

They sit through endless hours of sexual harassment training because some generals misbehaved with subordinates.<\/p>\n

Then they see the military punishing minor offenses, like urinating on corpses, with courts martial. While they’re taking the brunt of cost cutting in the Defense Department right now, the so-called leadership is taking their cuts in four years. And they have to be told by the IG that they have 511 unused cars in their fleet that they don’t need. Their leaders are telling them that cutting costs is going to be painful – to everyone except those with stars in their rank.<\/p>\n

The troops were the ones who pulled their weight and paid the price in the war. They even returned to the war with their artificial limbs, making sacrifices that no leader should expect them to make. And the perfumed princes in the puzzle palace hand them even more shit sandwiches when they return, while the princes eat at catered banquet tables.<\/p>\n

And then, this general, Perkins, tells them they became spoiled from years of overspending, and they have to get used to doing more with less. F*** you, General Perkins, just F*** you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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