{"id":38356,"date":"2013-11-09T06:28:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38356"},"modified":"2013-11-09T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:30:10","slug":"hagel-calls-for-pay-benefits-cuts-to-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38356","title":{"rendered":"Hagel calls for pay, benefits cuts to military"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like I said when he was selected to be the Secretary of Defense, Hagel was chosen to be a hatchet man. Yeah, everyone was saying how great it’d be to have a former enlisted soldier in the position, but he’s a selfish piece of shit more interested in getting along than doing any real work. This is from military.com<\/a>, sent to us by ROS;<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned Tuesday that troops and their families will be asked to sacrifice on pay and benefits to preserve readiness in an era of tighter budgets.<\/p>\n

Hagel listed politically-charged changes to compensation and personnel policy as one of his top six priorities in reforming the military following the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as the department gears up to meet new challenges.<\/p>\n

“This may be the most difficult” to achieve among his six priorities, Hagel said of proposals to trim pay increases, overhaul TRICARE and review retirement benefits while adapting to cuts in personnel.<\/p>\n

“Without serious attempts to achieve significant savings in this area, which consumes roughly half of the DoD budget and is increasing every year, we risk becoming an unbalanced force,” Hagel said.<\/p>\n

The alternative was to have a military that is “well-compensated, but poorly trained and equipped, with limited readiness and capability,” Hagel said in a keynote address to a Global Security Forum 2013 sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, I don’t see Congress discussing their own pay cuts, or planning to do more with less. Are we talking about Hagel taking a cut in either his pay or his pension from the Senate? I’d believe he is serious about saving money if he turned in his pay check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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