{"id":39493,"date":"2014-01-28T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39493"},"modified":"2014-01-28T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T12:00:51","slug":"retired-senior-ncos-remember-how-to-do-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39493","title":{"rendered":"Retired Senior NCOs remember how to do their jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to Army Times<\/a>‘ article about a group of senior NCOs who have banded together to voice their opinions publicly about the impending Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) cuts to military retirees’ pay;<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t join the military to get rich. There are a lot of sacrifices. There are PCS moves. There are bullets flying overhead. We\u2019re still fighting a war, and now we are talking about reducing the COLA? I don\u2019t get it,\u201d recently retired Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Roy said.<\/p>\n

In interviews, Roy and the others denounced the reductions, calling them unfair to the average enlisted troops who often struggle to find decent-paying jobs when they leave the service.<\/p>\n

The six senior enlisted leaders said they decided to speak out after four retired generals and flag officers issued a statement Jan. 13 voicing support for the cuts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I guess they figure it’s still their job to speak up for the enlisted soldiers, unlike folks like Ray Chandler, the current Sergeant Major of the Army who sees his job to be protecting his political masters from criticism. I haven’t heard any of the current most senior NCOs sticking up for their troops. Yeah, I know, that’s not really their job, but, ya know what? When the Clinton Administration started making policies with which I disagreed, I retired rather than try to defend those policies to my troops. <\/p>\n

Those four generals are just feathering their own nests. Who is going to listen to a retired general preaching about our duty to take pension cuts in the ass? At least some senior NCOs haven’t forgotten that their main job is to speak for the troops even though their officers aren’t listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to Army Times‘ article about a group of senior NCOs … Retired Senior NCOs remember how to do their jobs<\/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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39493","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=39493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}