{"id":77538,"date":"2018-02-06T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77538"},"modified":"2018-02-06T07:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:56:21","slug":"pentagon-common-sense-stop-being-non-deployable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77538","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon common sense; stop being non-deployable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/02\/05\/deploy-or-get-out-new-pentagon-plan-could-boot-thousands-of-non-deployable-troops\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=EBB%202\/6\/18&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">Military Times<\/a> reports that the service chiefs are looking at a policy that would force non-deployable service members to the curb if they are in that status for 12 consecutive months.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe department intends to emphasize the expectation that all service members are worldwide deployable and to establish standardized criteria for retaining non-deployable service members,\u201d said Air Force Maj. Carla Gleason, a Pentagon spokeswoman. \u201cThe goal of the policy is to further reduce the number of non-deployable service members and improve personnel readiness across the force.\u201d<br \/>\nFor certain non-deployable personnel, such as wounded warriors, the services would retain the ability to grant exceptions to the retention policy. <\/p>\n<p>Approximately 11 percent, or 235,000, of the 2.1 million personnel serving on active duty, in the reserves or National Guard are currently non-deployable, according to Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell, the senior enlisted adviser to Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to imagine why this hasn&#8217;t been a policy until now. What good is a force that is too sick to do their jobs? Of course, waivers will grant retention for members injured in combat;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of that total non-deployable force, Troxell said, about 99,000 are on that list for administrative reasons, such as not having all their immunizations or their required dental exams. About 20,000 are not deployable due to pregnancy, and 116,000 are not deployable due to either short- or long-term injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 99,000 is the easy stuff \u2014 that\u2019s squad leader Troxell &#8230; walking you over to the dental clinic, and you\u2019re going to sit in a dentist\u2019s chair, and you\u2019re going to get your annual exam so we can get you off this list,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other numbers I\u2019m talking about [the 116,000 injuries] &#8230; very few of those are related to combat injuries. Or battle injuries. It\u2019s related to everyday, doing their job, or during physical training that they were injured.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how that will affect the new transgender troops who will be non-deployable when they begin their reassignment treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Military Times reports that the service chiefs are looking at a policy that would force &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon common sense; stop being non-deployable\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77538\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon common sense; stop being non-deployable<\/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":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77538","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=77538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}