{"id":57870,"date":"2015-01-26T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57870"},"modified":"2015-01-26T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:25:04","slug":"hagel-nonstop-war-is-forcing-good-troops-to-leave-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57870","title":{"rendered":"Hagel: “nonstop war” is forcing good troops to leave services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proving why he was appointed by this White House to be the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel tells NPR<\/a> that folks are leaving the service because of constant deployments to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Hagel says that when, in a recent meeting, he spoke with a group of six promising young U.S. military officers, “five out of the six said they were uncertain over whether they were going to stay in the service and most likely would get out.<\/p>\n

“And why? Because of family issues, because of stress and strain,” he tells Inskeep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While that might be true in some cases, Hagel might want to look a little deeper into the subject before he talks about it in public. For example, why would the troops want to make those continuous deployments when they understand that the country for which they are fighting has no interest in actually fighting the war to a successful conclusion? Why would they want to remain in the service when they are encouraged to not engage the enemy with all of the ordnance at their disposal? Why would they want to stay in a service that is more interested in social engineering than in fighting wars? Why would they want to stay in the service when everything they do can get them tossed?<\/p>\n

Why would they want to make continuous deployments, make the sacrifices they make to family and health for a Defense Department that places more emphasis on recognizing a first sergeant who trolls social media than the door kickers and life takers in Afghanistan?<\/p>\n

They’re leaving because the people who are supposed to be fighting for their pay and benefits are doing their best to ruin the pay system. So, yeah, Hagel, you should go, but don’t lie about what the troops are facing on this side of the wars. They’d deploy nonstop if they thought that someone was watching their backs at home, but that has not been the case over the past few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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