{"id":57696,"date":"2015-01-16T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57696"},"modified":"2015-01-15T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:42:57","slug":"hagel-becomes-angel-of-death-for-troops-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57696","title":{"rendered":"Hagel becomes angel of death for troops’ compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chuck Hagel, the out-going Secretary of Defense is touring the country to say goodbye to the troops and to tell them that they’re going to get screwed in their wallets soon, according to the Military Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“We cannot sustain the current trajectory that we are on with the current system we have,” Hagel said. “We have opportunity here to make some shifts, some reforms, early on over a period of time, which assures that no one gets hurt on this. And the longer we defer it and not make these decisions on how do we come to grips with these realities, the more difficult it’s going to be and in particular the more costly it’s going to be, I think, for the men and women in uniform.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to address this. And we have to be honest about it. And we have to deal with it,” Hagel said.<\/p>\n

Scaling back troops’ pay and benefits will be a careful balancing act, he said, because the military will need to offer a compensation package that is generous enough to continue to draw an educated and high-quality force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hagel is talking about the recommendations of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission which are due out next month to advise the Congress on how to change the compensation of the troops, you know, for risking their lives and spending years away from their families in service to their country.<\/p>\n

Remember the last two Secretaries of Defense went around on their way out of office discouraging and demoralizing the troops, too. It’s kind of a tradition now, I guess.<\/p>\n

There’s no word that the heads of other agencies, like the EPA, the Education Department or the Department of Commerce are visiting their employees with the same warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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