{"id":42862,"date":"2014-04-10T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=42862"},"modified":"2014-04-09T19:13:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T23:13:23","slug":"marine-corps-sergeant-major-poor-marines-are-best-for-the-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42862","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps&#8217; Sergeant Major; Poor Marines are best for the Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=42864\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Micheal_P._Barrett-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Micheal_P._Barrett\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Micheal_P._Barrett-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Micheal_P._Barrett-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Micheal_P._Barrett.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know how to start this blog post, but ROS sent it to us from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140409\/NEWS05\/304090064\/Sgt-Maj-Marine-Corps-Barrett-Less-pay-raises-discipline\">Army Times<\/a>. Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Micheal Barrett told lawmakers that lower pay would be good for the Marines who think he&#8217;s working for them. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead, Barrett argued that the lower quality of life would be beneficial to Marines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly believe it will raise discipline,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ll have better spending habits. You won\u2019t be so wasteful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Barrett and the other leaders emphasized that without changes in compensation, force readiness will suffer. Pentagon leaders have said that they need to trim a host of benefits and family assistance efforts to ensure that training and equipment modernization funds aren\u2019t compromised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering what the Hell is wrong with these assholes in the Pentagon. Yeah, assholes. Every other agency of the executive branch is lobbying Congress for higher wages and more benefits for their employees, while these peckerwoods in uniforms are begging Congress to slash compensation for theirs. <\/p>\n<p>Amos I almost understand, but the enlisted Marines are depending on their Sergeant Major to look out for their welfare, but obviously, he&#8217;s only thinking of his political future. I hope he chokes on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t even know how to start this blog post, but ROS sent it to us &hellip; <a title=\"Marine Corps&#8217; Sergeant Major; Poor Marines are best for the Corps\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42862\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine Corps&#8217; Sergeant Major; Poor Marines are best for the Corps<\/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":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42862","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=42862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}