{"id":39453,"date":"2014-01-25T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39453"},"modified":"2014-01-25T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T13:54:10","slug":"army-opens-up-132-mos-to-female-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39453","title":{"rendered":"Army opens up 132 MOS to female soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/thousands-of-positions-in-132-army-jobs-will-be-opened-to-women-1.263741\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the Army is opening up 33,000 positions in 32 military occupational specialties (MOS) to female soldiers in April. But the good news is;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The newly announced positions open to women do not include MOSes such as infantry, nor do they cover special operations units. U.S. Special Operations Command is conducting its own assessment of how to open additional jobs to women. According to the timeline Panetta announced, the military has until 2016 to fully integrate women into the force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, that&#8217;s what Panetta wanted, he&#8217;s not the secretary of defense now. Surely Chuck Hagel, who served in the infantry during the Vietnam War is a little bit smarter than Panetta, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked about the opening of combat unit positions to women in a press briefing Thursday, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel shares Panetta\u2019s commitment to integrating female troops as much as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve yet to hear from anyone, anywhere, how this is going to improve the Army&#8217;s ability to face an enemy on the field of battle. I&#8217;ve read how this will improve women&#8217;s careers, but then is that the sole benefit? I thought the military&#8217;s function is to force our political will on people who might not agree with us. We&#8217;ve been fairly successful in that regard for more than two hundred years, so why are we changing it all? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the Army is opening up 33,000 positions in 32 military &hellip; <a title=\"Army opens up 132 MOS to female soldiers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39453\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army opens up 132 MOS to female soldiers<\/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-39453","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\/39453","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=39453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}