{"id":69172,"date":"2016-11-30T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T13:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69172"},"modified":"2016-11-30T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T13:45:23","slug":"coast-guard-wont-change-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69172","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard won&#8217;t change ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2016\/11\/29\/commandant-dropping-ratings-would-create-chaos-coast-guard.html?ESRC=orig.sm\">Military.com<\/a> reports that the Coast Guard has decided against changing their system of ranks and ratings like the Navy has decided;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard [Steven Cantrell], we said, &#8216;What would the workforce think about this,&#8217; and it would cause chaos,&#8221; [Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft] said. &#8220;I cannot afford chaos when every person in the Coast Guard has a 24-by-7 job to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard, the smallest of the branches, has an active-duty force of about 40,000, compared to the Navy&#8217;s nearly 324,000. It also has a smaller ratings system, with fewer than two dozen separate ratings compared with 89 for the Navy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine that. A branch chief and his senior NCO who aren&#8217;t going to make a change solely for the sake of making a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military.com reports that the Coast Guard has decided against changing their system of ranks and ratings &hellip; <a title=\"Coast Guard won&#8217;t change ratings\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69172\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coast Guard won&#8217;t change ratings<\/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":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172","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=69172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}