{"id":579,"date":"2005-01-07T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T23:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/579"},"modified":"2005-01-07T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T23:39:25","slug":"us-army-reserve-a-broken-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/579","title":{"rendered":"US army reserve a &#8216;broken&#8217; force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4150749.stm\">US army reserve a &#8216;broken&#8217; force<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US reservist Frank O&#8217;Farrell, who left for the Gulf last year just after getting married<br \/>\nPart-time soldiers form 40% of US troops in Iraq<br \/>\nThe commander of the US army reserve says it is rapidly degenerating into a &#8220;broken&#8221; force.<\/p>\n<p>Lt Gen James Helmly, in a leaked memo to the Pentagon, says the reserve has reached a point where it cannot fulfil its missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Reservists provide a large share of US troops in Iraq. The army says Gen Helmly&#8217;s concerns are being addressed.<\/p>\n<p>But analysts say they will fuel criticism that Pentagon policies are harming the US all-volunteer military.<\/p>\n<p>The army reserve is a force of about 200,000 part-time soldiers who chose not to sign-up for active duty but can be mobilised in time of need.<\/p>\n<p>Together with National Guard troops &#8211; who also serve part-time &#8211; reservists account for about 40% of US troops in Iraq. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why does this not surprise me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US army reserve a &#8216;broken&#8217; force US reservist Frank O&#8217;Farrell, who left for the Gulf last year just after getting married Part-time soldiers form 40% of US troops in Iraq The commander of the US army reserve says it is rapidly degenerating into a &#8220;broken&#8221; force. Lt Gen James Helmly, in a leaked memo to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-9l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}