{"id":55817,"date":"2014-10-14T19:06:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T23:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55817"},"modified":"2014-10-14T19:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T23:06:19","slug":"relax-it-is-gonna-be-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55817","title":{"rendered":"Relax&#8230; It IS Gonna Be Okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55724\">Hondo&#8217;s post about Global Warming<\/a> with some concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Then I discovered that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2014\/10\/14\/army-braces-for-global-warming-impacts-on-bases.html\"> SecDef Hagel and the Brass Hats <\/a>are taking care of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We&#8217;re seeing the impacts&#8221; from global warming across Army facilities, said Katharine Hammack, assistant Army secretary for Installations. &#8220;Wildfires, changes in precipitation, and increased extreme weather events are growing in frequency and intensity,&#8221; Hammack said at the Association of the U.S. Army&#8217;s annual conference in Washington, D.C<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I always kinda thought the old dictum of &#8220;Adapt and Overcome&#8221; applied to our military in general? I am REALLY glad to know The Brass is concerned enough to spend millions on\u00a0 important stuff like:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The alternative financing is absolutely essential,&#8221; said Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostwick, head of the Army Corps of Engineers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bostwick pointed to several base projects to save energy \u2013 a solar wall for heating buildings at Fort Drum, New York; a ground source heating pump at Fort Carson, Colorado; and solar hot water panels at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;ll be better than spending the money on foul weather gear, better all weather vehicles, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Aside: the other branches ARE doing the same indeed, I didn&#8217;t single out The Army.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Hondo&#8217;s post about Global Warming with some concerns. Then I discovered that SecDef Hagel and &hellip; <a title=\"Relax&#8230; It IS Gonna Be Okay\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55817\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Relax&#8230; It IS Gonna Be Okay<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55817","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}