{"id":60279,"date":"2015-06-09T07:58:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60279"},"modified":"2015-06-08T16:12:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:12:46","slug":"more-turbulence-at-the-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60279","title":{"rendered":"More turbulence at the Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Martin Dempsey stepping down as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ray Odierno leaving the post of the Army Chief of Staff, the Secretary of the Army, John McHugh announced that he&#8217;s leaving that post in the Fall according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2015\/06\/08\/army-secretary-john-mchugh-to-step-down-pentagon-says\/\">Washington Post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McHugh, a former Republican congressman, has been the Army\u2019s top civilian since 2009. He expressed a wish to leave his post several weeks ago, the Pentagon said in a statement, and has told the president that he would step down by Nov. 1. The Pentagon did not say why McHugh was leaving, and McHugh\u2019s office declined to elaborate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was against McHugh accepting the position six years ago, and so I&#8217;m glad to see him leave. I predicted back then that he was only selected to put a bi-partisan face on the Obama Administration&#8217;s planned deep cuts in defense spending (McHugh is a Republican) and that prediction has proved true. <\/p>\n<p>My experience with McHugh was as one of his constituents in Jefferson County, New York. All he knew about the Army was that the presence of Fort Drum in his district meant jobs and way for him to win elections if he could beat back the BRAC assaults on the brand new base.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m pleased to see McHugh leave, I&#8217;m more worried about which hatchet man will replace him.<\/p>\n<p>We can be reasonably sure that the President will name yet another executioner, not a reformer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Martin Dempsey stepping down as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ray Odierno &hellip; <a title=\"More turbulence at the Pentagon\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60279\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More turbulence at the Pentagon<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60279","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=60279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}