{"id":63786,"date":"2016-01-11T09:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63786"},"modified":"2016-01-11T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:31:36","slug":"guard-and-reserve-deployments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63786","title":{"rendered":"Guard and Reserve deployments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army will reduce it&#8217;s strength by 12,000 more jobs this year, meanwhile deployments are on the rise. The Wisconsin National Guard is sending troops to Iraq and Kuwait to augment the 101st Division, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/wisconsin\/state-guard-members-prepare-to-return-to-iraq-b99645389z1-364131651.html\">Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/a>. The Arizona National Guard is sending two helicopter units to Europe and the Middle East according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonnewsnow.com\/story\/30926912\/ariz-army-national-guard-units-deploy-to-middle-east-and-europe\">Tucson News<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that more than 6,000 Reservists and National Guard soldiers deployed to Europe last year and that number is expected to increase this year.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the commander of US Army Europe, Lieutenant general Ben Hodges told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/military\/general-needs-more-troops-in-europe\/article_8c3baf37-2345-5be7-91e4-fd01e057a1e8.html\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a> that he doesn&#8217;t have the forces that he needs in Europe, that he is going to depend on Guard and Reserve rotational deployments to hold back the Russian hordes.<\/p>\n<p>On paper, that almost makes sense, however, how many people are going to enlist for the Guard and Reserves when the new enlistees are looking at endless rounds of deployments to slog through mud at Grafenwoer or Hohenfels. It was one thing to expect them to deploy to a war like in Afghanistan or Iraq, quite another to deploy reserve troops to Germany or Poland. How forgiving will employers be? Honestly, would you consider hiring an employee who will disappear every few years to Europe?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think anyone thought this thing through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army will reduce it&#8217;s strength by 12,000 more jobs this year, meanwhile deployments are on &hellip; <a title=\"Guard and Reserve deployments\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63786\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guard and Reserve deployments<\/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":[232,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news","category-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786","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=63786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}