{"id":77831,"date":"2018-02-20T08:16:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77831"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:16:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:16:57","slug":"mattis-and-the-non-deployable-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77831","title":{"rendered":"Mattis and the non-deployable policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Military Times<\/a> reports on Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ comments on the DoD policy to eliminate from the services folks who remain non-deployable for more than twelve consecutive months;<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re either deployable, or you need to find something else to do. I\u2019m not going have some people deploying constantly and then other people, who seem to not pay that price, in the U.S. military,\u201d Mattis told reporters Feb. 17 in his first comments on the issue since the new policy was formally introduced.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can\u2019t go overseas [and] carry a combat load, then obviously someone else has got to go. I want this spread fairly and expertly across the force.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It only makes sense – the job of the military is to fight our wars and if you’re incapable of that, why would you even want to stick around? <\/p>\n

I’d take it a step further and boot anyone who turns down a leadership position. A master sergeant who turns down a first sergeant job, or a staff sergeant major who turns down a command sergeant major position should find themselves on the street the next day.<\/p>\n

But, tiny steps, I guess. <\/p>\n

USNI<\/a> published the guidance from the Deputy Secretary of Defense;<\/p>\n

Service members who have been non-deployable for more than 12 consecutive months, for any reason, will be processed for administrative separation in accordance with Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI)1332.14, Enlisted Administrative Separations, or Instruction 1332.30, Separation of Regular and Reserve Commissioned Officers, or will be referred into the Disability Evaluation System in accordance with 1332.18, Disability Evaluation System (DES). Pregnant and post-partum Service members are the only group automatically excepted from this policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I anticipate many people coming off a medical profile becoming pregnant. Half of our Support Battalion’s ambulance platoon were pregnant by the time we deployed to Desert Storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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