{"id":55913,"date":"2014-10-19T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55913"},"modified":"2014-10-19T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:48:54","slug":"pulling-their-fat-from-the-fire-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55913","title":{"rendered":"Pulling their fat from the fire&#8230;again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So while the country is going into melt down over the whole Ebola thing, the Pentagon is doing what they do best &#8211; sending the troops in to pull the administration&#8217;s fat from the fire, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/new-military-medical-team-to-help-with-ebola-in-us-1.309136\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the military to prepare and train a 30-member medical support team that could provide short-term help to civilian health professionals if there are more Ebola cases in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>His spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, says the team drawn from across the military services will include 20 critical care nurses, five doctors trained in infectious diseases and five trainers in infectious disease protocols.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, this government can&#8217;t do anything without using the military, probably ebcause they&#8217;re the only government entity that the public trusts.  All the while, military folks are the only government employees whose bosses are cutting their pay raises, raising their health care costs, slicing up their retirement package, sending them pink slips while someone is shooting at them.<\/p>\n<p>The article continues to say that these 30 folks are not going to West Africa;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kirby&#8230;says members will be called up for service in the U.S. only if needed by public health officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>F*** you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while the country is going into melt down over the whole Ebola thing, the Pentagon &hellip; <a title=\"Pulling their fat from the fire&#8230;again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55913\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pulling their fat from the fire&#8230;again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55913","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=55913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}