{"id":192234,"date":"2009-04-25T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/25\/someone-else-recommends-disbanding-the-usaf\/"},"modified":"2009-04-25T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T12:01:00","slug":"someone-else-recommends-disbanding-the-usaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/25\/someone-else-recommends-disbanding-the-usaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Else Recommends Disbanding the USAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only this time, as opposed to being a proposal in the milblogosphere, it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/21\/opinion\/21kane.html?em\">retired Marine corps officer<\/a>, Paul Kane on the OP\/ED pages of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I agreed with it then, and I agree with it now.<\/p>\n<p>He also suggests that the services abandon up or out, where officers are discharged if they get passed over for promotion twice, which is a good idea too.<\/p>\n<p>Up or out tends to create sycophants, because having a poor review given out of enmity can destroy a career, and is one reason that our current military is so top heavy (1 officer per 5 enlisted men, as opposed to the 1:10 it had through most of its history).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only this time, as opposed to being a proposal in the milblogosphere, it&#8217;s a retired Marine corps officer, Paul Kane on the OP\/ED pages of the New York Times. I agreed with it then, and I agree with it now. He also suggests that the services abandon up or out, where officers are discharged if &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}