{"id":8324,"date":"2009-03-01T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2009-03-01T11:12:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:12:59","slug":"army-mom-and-ap-battle-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8324","title":{"rendered":"Army Mom and AP battle Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military.com<\/a> is headlining this Associated Press story;
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\nYa know, I commiserate with this woman somewhat – however, calling Associated Press, a well-known hater of the US military, isn’t really a solution. They gloss over details like the fact that she’s not really “honorably discharged” as they claim since she’s in the IRR. Part of the responsibility of a military parent is to have a family care plan. In my unit during our Desert Storm, two Staff Sergeants who were married had to send their kids from Germany to their parents back in the US during their joint deployment to the battle.<\/p>\n

Pagan, in the article admits that she knew that she could be called for deployment;<\/p>\n

She always knew there was a chance she could be recalled, so she buried the thought in the back of her mind.<\/p>\n

“When I enlisted, they said almost nobody gets called back when you’re in the IRR,” she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those damn “they” lied again. But since she enlisted, all of this hoopla about IRR call ups happening should have spurred her into action, especially since it’s been over a year since she was notified to be recalled. Did the Army do a dumb thing? Yes, they did, since they’ve had a few chances to shed themselves of this particular problem and didn’t. But that doesn’t justify Pagan contacting the Associated Press to battle this out in a public forum.<\/p>\n

I commend her for reporting for duty as she’s been ordered (since so many other cowards *cough*Chiroux*cough*<\/em> won’t even do that much), but bringing AP into the discussion is just the wrong answer. Odds are that the Army would have done something about the problem when she showed up without the AP’s involvement, but there’s no good possible outcome for either party at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Military.com is headlining this Associated Press story; Ya know, I commiserate with this woman somewhat – … Army Mom and AP battle Army<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","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=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}