{"id":67642,"date":"2016-08-26T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67642"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:49:08","slug":"army-officers-to-be-vetted-before-consideration-for-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67642","title":{"rendered":"Army officers to be vetted before consideration for promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army had a &#8220;duh&#8221; moment last month when they released a directive to determine the suitability of officers for promotion before they are considered for advancement instead of during the process, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/173782\/new_army_directive_officers_must_be_vetted_before_promotions_are_confirmed\">Army News Service<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the Army has always investigated officers to ensure they are suitable for promotion, in the past such vetting usually took place at the same time that senior Army, Defense and congressional leadership were considering them, rather than before.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the directive published Thursday, July 18, requires that officers who are selected for promotion be vetted for mental, physical, moral, and professional fitness and meet the standards for exemplary conduct before their names are forwarded to the secretary of the Army for certification.<\/p>\n<p>The previous concurrent vetting process sometimes resulted in the Army having to remove officers from promotion lists, resulting in embarrassment for the individual and the service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that makes sense &#8211; so much sense that they should be asking themselves why that hasn&#8217;t happened until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army had a &#8220;duh&#8221; moment last month when they released a directive to determine the &hellip; <a title=\"Army officers to be vetted before consideration for promotion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67642\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army officers to be vetted before consideration for promotion<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67642","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=67642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}