{"id":39566,"date":"2014-01-30T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39566"},"modified":"2014-01-30T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:08:41","slug":"well-now-we-know-why-colas-were-really-reduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39566","title":{"rendered":"Well, Now We Know Why COLAs Were REALLY Reduced . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the funds were needed to develop a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140130\/NEWS\/301300012\/It-s-not-delivery-s-MRE-Researchers-seek-secret-downrange-pizza\">pizza MRE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m joking about the &#8220;funds were needed&#8221; part.\u00a0 But not about spending years to develop a pizza MRE.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow a pizza MRE just doesn&#8217;t strike me as the Army&#8217;s most pressing need these days.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I&#8217;m all for better equipment, uniforms, field rations, and the like.\u00a0 And improving what you have today is always something you need to look at.<\/p>\n<p>But at some point, what you have today is more than good enough.\u00a0 Go beyond that, and IMO you&#8217;re simply wasting time and money &#8211; AKA &#8220;gilding the lily&#8221; or &#8220;goldplating&#8221;.\u00a0 Or making changes simply for the sake of making changes.<\/p>\n<p>Doing that also wastes time and money &#8211; time and money that could be used for better things.\u00a0 Like, you know, maybe keeping promises and\/or improving the quality of training or life for the troops.\u00a0 &#8216;Cause Lord knows DoD consistently seems to have a problem with all of those.\u00a0 And &#8220;not enough money&#8221; seems to always be the reason.<\/p>\n<p>A pizza MRE.\u00a0 Hell, wouldn&#8217;t it be just as simple to put a box of mixed long-shelf-life condiment packets in each case of MREs\u00a0 (or one of each in each MRE) and let the troops &#8220;spice things up&#8221; as they wish?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the funds were needed to develop a\u00a0pizza MRE. Well, I&#8217;m joking about the &#8220;funds were &hellip; <a title=\"Well, Now We Know Why COLAs Were REALLY Reduced . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39566\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well, Now We Know Why COLAs Were REALLY Reduced . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}