{"id":40195,"date":"2014-03-06T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40195"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:04:45","slug":"marines-units-not-deployable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40195","title":{"rendered":"Marine units not deployable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/article\/20140306\/NEWS\/303060001\/Pentagon-Half-stateside-Marine-units-unacceptable-readiness-levels\">Marine Corps Times<\/a> reports that about half of stateside Marine Corps units &#8220;were at an acceptable level of readiness last September&#8221; as a result of sequestration budget cuts. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The data comes from the Marine Corps\u2019 Defense Readiness Reporting System, said Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Eric Flanagan. The system, established as a concept across the Defense Department at the turn of the century and enhanced with new requirements for the Marine Corps in 2010, collects data on unit resources, training and preparation, which is then reported to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan did not specify what the units at unacceptable readiness levels were lacking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn total, they were missing some form of personnel, equipment and\/or training,\u201d he said via email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, I don&#8217;t have to remind this audience that we&#8217;re still involved in a war, with hotspots around the world flaring up. Sequestration was the result of a White House proposal and Congressional spinelessness to cut the federal budget across the board. They can throw fingers at each other, but the blame is non-partisan. And, oh, look at their solution &#8211; more cuts to defense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps Times reports that about half of stateside Marine Corps units &#8220;were at an &hellip; <a title=\"Marine units not deployable\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40195\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine units not deployable<\/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":[46,89,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40195","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=40195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}