{"id":65122,"date":"2016-04-06T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65122"},"modified":"2016-04-05T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:38:50","slug":"major-general-jim-rainey-i-think-allowing-women-in-combat-is-going-to-make-the-army-stronger-in-the-long-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65122","title":{"rendered":"Major General Jim Rainey: I think [allowing women in combat is] going to make the Army stronger in the long run."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65123\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/MG-James-E.-Rainey-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"MG James E. Rainey\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/MG-James-E.-Rainey-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/MG-James-E.-Rainey-267x333.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/MG-James-E.-Rainey.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2016\/04\/04\/fort-stewart-general-women-in-combat-jobs-will-improve-army.html\">Military.com <\/a>reports that Fort Stewart commander, Major General Jim Rainey, during a press conference, praised the Army for allowing women to serve in jobs that will eventually take them to direct combat with America&#8217;s enemies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite some initial challenges, allowing female soldiers to serve in combat jobs that have long been closed to women should ultimately &#8220;make the Army stronger,&#8221; the top general at Fort Stewart said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As long as the right soldiers are chosen for the right jobs, based on their abilities, he said, &#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to make the Army stronger in the long run.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read the article three times and I&#8217;ll be damned if I can see where the good general explains how this will make the Army stronger. General Rainey has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewart.army.mil\/units\/biography.asp?id=246\">long and experienced career in the infantry<\/a>, you&#8217;d think that he could be a bit more clear on this decision will make the Army stronger &#8211; maybe even answer the question that I&#8217;ve been asking for years now &#8211; how will this decision help us kill our enemies in greater numbers? <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military.com reports that Fort Stewart commander, Major General Jim Rainey, during a press conference, praised the &hellip; <a title=\"Major General Jim Rainey: I think [allowing women in combat is] going to make the Army stronger in the long run.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65122\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major General Jim Rainey: I think [allowing women in combat is] going to make the Army stronger in the long run.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65122","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=65122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}