{"id":39744,"date":"2014-02-11T09:09:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39744"},"modified":"2014-02-11T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:09:54","slug":"army-up-or-out-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39744","title":{"rendered":"Army Up-or-Out standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gazette.com\/highground\/2014\/02\/10\/soldiers-must-move-up-or-out-faster-army-says\/\">Colorado Springs Gazette<\/a> reports that the Army has announced it&#8217;s newest standards for soldiers to remain in service in regards to their ranks;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Privates will get five years to move up or move out. Specialists and corporals will have an eight-year pull date and three-stripe sergeants will have 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>The move narrows the promotion windows for career-minded soldiers as the Army works to trim 80,000 troops from its ranks by 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The first rank that will allow a soldier to reach the 20-year retirement mark is staff sergeant. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only enlisted rank that can make the 30-year mark is sergeant major. I remember the last time they did this, the Army notified an E-8 friend of mine with 28 years of service that he needed to retire immediately. He had tears in his eyes as he told me that he didn&#8217;t know what he was going to do without the Army. That&#8217;s why my advice is to go out on your terms. Make plans to get out when you want to get out and don&#8217;t deviate from your plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that the Army has announced it&#8217;s newest standards for soldiers to &hellip; <a title=\"Army Up-or-Out standards\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39744\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army Up-or-Out standards<\/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-39744","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\/39744","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=39744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}