{"id":63349,"date":"2015-12-17T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63349"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T18:53:36","slug":"air-force-wont-provide-volley-salute-for-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63349","title":{"rendered":"Air Force won&#8217;t provide volley salute for funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63350\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AF-honor-guard-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"AF honor guard\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AF-honor-guard-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AF-honor-guard.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess since the Air Force can&#8217;t get rid of the A-10, they can&#8217;t afford to send seven Air Force members to the graveside of pensioners, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/khon2.com\/2015\/12\/14\/three-volley-salute-eliminated-from-air-force-funerals-due-to-lack-of-funding-personnel\/\">KHON2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Air Force says it can no longer provide the salute for funeral services.<\/p>\n<p>A family contacted Action Line after they were told they cannot have the full honor guard service for a loved who served in the Air Force for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Air Force says it\u2019s because of the lack of funding and personnel and it\u2019s being done across the country. A memo was sent out to all the funeral homes saying the honor guard will reduce retiree and veteran funeral details from a seven-person detail to a three-person detail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I can think of a million other things that could be slashed from the budget besides a final salute to service members. But, you know, the generals need their drivers and cooks, their cars and their maids. Congressmen need their six-figure pensions and their huge staffs. Ammo for one of these salutes is about $3 that they&#8217;ll never get back. Gotta fund that F-35 somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a number of you who sent the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess since the Air Force can&#8217;t get rid of the A-10, they can&#8217;t afford to &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force won&#8217;t provide volley salute for funerals\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63349\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force won&#8217;t provide volley salute for funerals<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63349","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=63349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}