{"id":195080,"date":"2008-07-30T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/core-of-us-army-corroding\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T04:22:00","slug":"core-of-us-army-corroding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/core-of-us-army-corroding\/","title":{"rendered":"Core of US Army Corroding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the military press, and military experts, have been wringing their hands over the flight of junior officers from the military, I&#8217;m not concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The US military has 1 officers for every 5 enlisted men, twice the historical rate of 1:10, so I think that there is plenty of margin there.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Salon&#8217;s report that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2008\/07\/30\/sergeants\/\">the army is now being forced to promote unqualified soldiers to senior NCO positions<\/a> to meet the challenges of the Iraq campaign is very troubling.<\/p>\n<p>Senior NCOs are the heart and soul of the army, and when the NCO corps starts failing, the whole military does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the military press, and military experts, have been wringing their hands over the flight of junior officers from the military, I&#8217;m not concerned. The US military has 1 officers for every 5 enlisted men, twice the historical rate of 1:10, so I think that there is plenty of margin there. That being said, Salon&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1063,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-iraq","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195080"}],"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=195080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}