{"id":61694,"date":"2015-09-03T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61694"},"modified":"2015-09-04T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:48:10","slug":"because-those-fat-paychecks-just-arent-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61694","title":{"rendered":"Because those fat retirement checks just aren&#8217;t enough sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/story\/military\/2015\/09\/02\/new-award-established-senior-pentagon-leaders\/71577090\/\">The Army Times<\/a> reports that the Army has created new award &#8220;to recognize &#8220;the demonstrated superior accomplishments and leadership that contributed to the efficiency, efficacy and overall improvement in the operations of the Army or its elements&#8221;&#8221;. It&#8217;s just for the wienies at the Pentagon &#8211; you know those guys for whom the fat paycheck just ain&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [Army Leadership Award] will be presented upon an official&#8217;s retirement or conclusion of service at Army headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The ALA will be awarded at the discretion and approval of the secretary of the Army, but eligibility is limited to a small cadre of senior leaders, as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Military: Army chief of staff, Army vice chief of staff and sergeant major of the Army.<\/p>\n<p>Civilian: Presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed officials who serve as secretary of the Army, undersecretary of the Army, the five assistant secretaries of the Army and general counsel of the Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess there has to be just a little bit more when you already have three Legion of Merit and four Meritorious Service Medals and retirement is just around the corner. And, you know, just BEING the Army Chief of Staff isn&#8217;t quite enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nominations for the award will consist of a one-page narrative to be submitted on a DA Form 1256 (Incentive Award Nomination and Approval).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I can see a lot of the nominations won&#8217;t be approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times reports that the Army has created new award &#8220;to recognize &#8220;the demonstrated superior &hellip; <a title=\"Because those fat retirement checks just aren&#8217;t enough sometimes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61694\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Because those fat retirement checks just aren&#8217;t enough sometimes<\/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":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694","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=61694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}