{"id":63913,"date":"2016-01-19T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63913"},"modified":"2016-01-19T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T14:51:12","slug":"military-bands-and-entertainment-groups-on-chopping-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63913","title":{"rendered":"Military bands and entertainment groups on chopping block"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobo sends us a link to the Stars & Stripes<\/a> which reports that the Pentagon has found $500 million\/year that they can slash from their budgets – the money allocated for their bands and their entertainment groups, like the Air Force’s Tops in Blues and the Army Soldier Show. The Army has cancelled it’s Operation Rising Star tour, it’s version of American Idol, as well.<\/p>\n

The Defense Department is set to spend around $1.5 billion on bands and other entertainment programs across the military branches, the Fiscal Times has reported.<\/p>\n

Other Army units are also seeing their bands disappearing. The Army announced last month that the 40-member 392nd Army Band, in Fort Lee, Va., will be reduced to a dozen soldiers in 2016 as part of the Army\u2019s overall budget cuts.<\/p>\n

Warrant Officer Kevin L. Pick, the band director, told the local Progress-Index newspaper that the band, once an integral part of the community and on track to play 500 dates between 2015 and 2016, will end. \u201cIt will be a shock,\u201d Pick said.<\/p>\n

All told, nearly 200 Army band member positions are being eliminated Army-wide, with cuts planned for the the U.S. Army Signal Corps Band based at Fort Gordon, Ga.; The 98th Army \u201cSilver Wings\u201d Band based at Fort Rucker, Ala.; and the 113th Army Band based at Fort Knox, Ky., the Army has announced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I’d rather see these kinds of cuts instead of cuts to the A-10 Warthog program. Now, if they can see their way clear to cut staffs at the Pentagon and put some of those people back on the lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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