{"id":55544,"date":"2014-10-01T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55544"},"modified":"2014-09-30T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T23:37:55","slug":"thanks-for-your-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55544","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for your service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here we are in the midst of several deployments to the various shit holes around the world. The Afghan War isn&#8217;t ending this year, thousands are supporting the newest Iraq War, 3000 are headed to Liberia to battle Ebola and at home, the folks in the Pentagon are hard at work to support them. Says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2014\/09\/30\/pentagon-promises-to-try-to-cut-pay-and-benefits-again.html?comp=7000023317828&#038;rank=1\">Military.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said Tuesday that the Pentagon will continue pressing to trim military pay, pensions, and housing allowances despite rejections by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon will also try again to reform the Tricare health care system and kill the A-10 attack aircraft despite nearly universal opposition from veterans service organizations, Work said at a Council on Foreign Relations forum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This whole idea of compensation is absolutely critical. Compensation (reform) is a really big deal&#8221; in DoD&#8217;s efforts to maintain readiness, fight wars in Afghanistan and the Mideast and rebalance forces to the Pacific while working under the budgetary restrictions of the Congressional sequester process, Work said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, they cut pay raises, but that&#8217;s not enough, apparently, I&#8217;m sure we can find a senior NCO somewhere who can spur the general officers and the civilian employees onward in their quest to make military service even shittier, so shitty, in fact, that they&#8217;ll be in command of nothing after a while.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here we are in the midst of several deployments to the various shit holes around &hellip; <a title=\"Thanks for your service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55544\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanks for your service<\/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":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55544","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=55544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}