{"id":76401,"date":"2017-12-08T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76401"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:47:57","slug":"thank-goodness-theres-direct-deposit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76401","title":{"rendered":"Thank goodness there’s direct deposit"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Stars & Stripes<\/a>, the Defense Department reports that there are 44,000 uniformed DoD personnel that are “unknown” as far as their location in the world is concerned.<\/p>\n

The murkiness of the posted numbers of personnel in locations across the world follows a congressional outcry over lack of knowledge of how many soldiers are stationed in Niger, where four Special Forces soldiers were killed Oct. 4 in an attack by militants thought to be associated with radical Islamists.<\/p>\n

Prominent members of Congress, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, R.-S.C., claimed they had no idea that so many soldiers — about 800, according to Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — were deployed to Niger. The United States has maintained troops there since 2013 and has been involved on and off in the country for decades, Dunford said.<\/p>\n

Pentagon officials say \u201caccounting procedures\u201d make knowing actual end strength difficult to determine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I find that hard to believe in the age of computers, all they have to do is add a block for a country code, and you would have instant access to an accurate number in a specific place. If the Department of Defense dosn’t want to give Congress and the media an accurate number, they should just say that instead of looking like incompetent boobs.<\/p>\n

Or, they could ask banks where the troops are spending their paychecks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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