{"id":72605,"date":"2017-06-07T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72605"},"modified":"2017-06-07T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:16:11","slug":"the-army-wants-you-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72605","title":{"rendered":"The Army wants you to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Fox Business News<\/a>, the Army has been told by the new sheriffs in town that they’ll be expanding their ranks to meet their commitments in the war against terror and beyond.<\/p>\n

Under the current plan, the active duty Army will grow by 16,000 soldiers, taking it to 476,000 in total by October. The National Guard and the Army Reserve will see a smaller expansion.<\/p>\n

To meet the mandate, the Army must find 6,000 new soldiers, convince 9,000 current soldiers to stay on and add 1,000 officers.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a ways to go,” Gen. Robert Abrams, head of U.S. Army Forces Command, said in an interview at his office in Fort Bragg, N.C. “I’m not going to kid you. It’s been difficult because a lot of these kids had plans and their families had plans.”<\/p>\n

In just the last two weeks, the Army has paid out more than $26 million in bonuses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It always happens that way – a Democrat president will slice up the Defense Department is an effort to show that they’ll jeopardize our national security to save a coupla bucks and the realist Republican president has to come in and restore those cuts – and be branded a war monger spending irrationally on defense.<\/p>\n

So according to the Fox article, the Army is offering up to $90,000 per for bonuses to remain in uniform for some of the folks who made plans to get out of the Army this year. The Army is doing their best to retain quality troops so they don’t have to lower the enlistment standards to meet their manpower goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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