{"id":63167,"date":"2015-12-09T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63167"},"modified":"2015-12-08T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T23:43:11","slug":"wienies-build-a-wienie-nco-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63167","title":{"rendered":"Wienies build a wienie NCO Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big benefit to the Army of a decade of war is the experience those back-to-back deployments gave those junior NCOs. They led troops in the most difficult times, they dealt with leadership problems that soldiers who never deployed will never understand. So, let&#8217;s just devalue that experience, shall we? From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/story\/military\/careers\/army\/enlisted\/2015\/12\/08\/promotion-point-changes-now-effect-sgt-staff-sgt\/76933320\/\">Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army has moved closer to launching a new promotion system for NCOs with the early-December redistribution of promotion points for specialists, corporals and sergeants competing for E-5 and E-6 stripes.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Army also is eliminating the points (up to 60 for sergeant and 90 for staff sergeant) that were available for combat experience in the \u201cMilitary Training\u201d section of the worksheet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you see, being a wienie has it&#8217;s benefits now. I&#8217;ll admit that schooling and all of that is important but serving in combat is at least as important &#8211; well, unless you&#8217;re a wienie. And the Army&#8217;s Sergeant Major wonders how 50,000 soldiers are non-deployable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big benefit to the Army of a decade of war is the experience those back-to-back &hellip; <a title=\"Wienies build a wienie NCO Corps\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63167\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wienies build a wienie NCO Corps<\/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-63167","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\/63167","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=63167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}