{"id":19113,"date":"2013-02-21T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19113"},"modified":"2013-02-21T09:37:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T14:37:35","slug":"looming-cutbacks-to-us-military-include-general-officers-scrambling-for-a-soft-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/looming-cutbacks-to-us-military-include-general-officers-scrambling-for-a-soft-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Looming cutbacks to US military include general officers scrambling for a soft landing"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a tough world out there. It looks like it’ll be getting tougher for soon-to-be retired US military leaders<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sources revealed today that a top U.S. Marine General is \u201cextremely hesitant\u201d about plans for his possible retirement, indicating a greater problem with military transition assistance programs.<\/p>\n

General John Murphy, the former commander of Fleet Marine Forces-Pacific, is looking toward a future in the private sector, but he says he may have to lower himself to take any position in order to support his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s scary out there with the economy the way it is,\u201d said Murphy in a telephone interview with The Duffel Blog. \u201cI\u2019m certainly hoping that I can secure a job as a D.C. lobbyist or a consultant to a defense contractor. But shit, I\u2019m just not sure anymore. I might have to degrade myself and be a military analyst at Fox News just to feed my goddamn kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy\u2019s worries underscore a major problem of assisting military members on their way out of the service. Junior enlisted personnel usually go through a weeklong Transition Assistance Program, or TAP, but the classes for general officers have serious drawbacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe enlisted classes set the guys up for everything. They basically pave the way for them to go college, give them job placement, the whole nine yards,\u201d said Michael Phillips, a counselor with the TAP program. \u201cBut for Generals, they need to do a lot of the work on their own. Most of them have to search for at least a few minutes in their rolodex to find a contact at BAE Systems or Lockheed before they have an executive position.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a tough world out there. It looks like it’ll be getting tougher for soon-to-be retired US military leaders: Sources revealed today that a top U.S. Marine General is \u201cextremely hesitant\u201d about plans for his possible retirement, indicating a greater problem with military transition assistance programs. General John Murphy, the former commander of Fleet Marine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[831,57,5],"tags":[727,463,514],"class_list":["post-19113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-humour","category-military","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-parody","tag-usmc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Yh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19114,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19113\/revisions\/19114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}