{"id":43198,"date":"2014-04-12T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T19:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=43198"},"modified":"2014-04-12T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T19:04:37","slug":"barretts-letter-to-his-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=43198","title":{"rendered":"Barrett’s letter to his Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a couple of days of being criticized for his performance in front of Congress the other day, The Marine Corps Times<\/a> reports that Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Mike Barrett tries to explain himself to his Marines, if they can hear him from under the bus, where he tossed them. <\/p>\n

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Basically, he’s saying “suck it up, cupcake”. According to the Military Officers’ Association of America, the gouge into an E-5’s pay after Congress gets done is going to be about $5000\/year. What would you sacrifice to spend $5000 a year less than you are now? The sergeant major writes in his letter that Congress was concerned about the troops and the impact that cutting their pay and allowances would have on the Corps’ readiness and the sergeant major’s response didn’t reflect the realities of their intentions. It wasn’t helpful at all – well, except to his continued employment.<\/p>\n

He could have told Congress to look elsewhere for their cuts to spending, that cuts to personnel costs will damage recruiting and retention efforts. He could have told them that the brain drain of the Corps would be so bad that they’ll never recover from it. But, the sergeant major’s response was “we’ve never had it so good, so yeah, slash the shit out of us so we’re all poor and go back on food stamps before we forget how”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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