{"id":23177,"date":"2015-07-13T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T21:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23177"},"modified":"2015-07-13T20:55:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T00:55:49","slug":"looking-on-the-bright-side-of-the-u-s-military-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/looking-on-the-bright-side-of-the-u-s-military-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking on the bright side of the U.S. military cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/policy-budget\/budget\/2015\/07\/08\/lawmakers-blast-us-army-force-cuts\/29883503\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Lawmakers are lining up to decry an US Army plan to cut 40,000 and shrink the size of the force from 490,000 to 450,000 by 2018.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called the Army&#8217;s plan a &#8220;dangerous consequence of budget-driven strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With global instability only increasing, and with just 33 percent of the Army&#8217;s brigade combat teams ready for deployment and decisive operations, there is simply no strategic basis to cut Army force structure below the pre-9\/11 level of 490,000,&#8221; McCain said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bright side is that, although 40,000 soldiers will be fired, none of them will be transsexuals, since the military is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/pentagon-finalizing-plan-to-lift-ban-on-transgender-individuals-in-military-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\">lifting the ban on them<\/a>. So all will be well: the enemy will be laughing so hard, they\u2019ll be much easier to shoot. And think of the financial savings in having shared toilets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Pentagon leaders are finalizing plans aimed at lifting the ban on transgender individuals in the military, with the goal of formally ending one of the last gender- or sexuality-based barriers to military service, senior U.S. officials told The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: WASHINGTON \u2014 Lawmakers are lining up to decry an US Army plan to cut 40,000 and shrink the size of the force from 490,000 to 450,000 by 2018. [\u2026\u2026] Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/looking-on-the-bright-side-of-the-u-s-military-cuts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[1562,2016],"class_list":["post-23177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-2","tag-transgender","tag-u-s-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}