{"id":61293,"date":"2015-08-09T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61293"},"modified":"2015-08-09T06:31:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T10:31:34","slug":"guard-and-reserves-cant-account-for-their-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61293","title":{"rendered":"Guard and Reserves can’t account for their troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends a link from Stars & Stripes<\/a> which reports that the Government Accountability Office has determined that the National Guard and the Reserves have no idea how many of their soldiers are ready to deploy. You might remember that is important because the Pentagon and the White House are expecting the gaps in staffing and manning in the active force left by sequestration are supposed to filled by the part-time services.<\/p>\n

The nonpartisan GAO also determined that hundreds of soldiers who were reported as ready to to serve were actually ineligible to mobilize and deploy under Army guidance.<\/p>\n

The inconsistencies suggest the components\u2019 overall nonavailability rates as of January \u2014 22 percent in the Reserve and 21 percent in the National Guard \u2014 could be even higher.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Without quality data that is readily available to leaders at all levels \u2026 the Army and its Reserve component leaders will not be able to adequately monitor and manage the availability of soldiers who make up over half of the total Army force,\u201d the GAO said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The GAO blames the inconsistencies on the inability of some data systems to interface. Gee, where have we heard that before? Also, that personnel clerks are improperly trained and units have staffing shortages. <\/p>\n

So basically, the Pentagon cobbled together a plan to deal with personnel cuts and presented it to the White House, but they didn’t have a way to implement that plan. That’s the first time that’s ever happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends a link from Stars & Stripes which reports that the Government Accountability Office … Guard and Reserves can’t account for their troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-guard","category-reserve-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61293","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=61293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}