{"id":238,"date":"2022-08-13T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mynci90.wordpress.com\/2022\/10\/13\/military-recruitment\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:28:00","slug":"military-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Military Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"1298\" src=\"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/b209fcfb-25b0-43b8-8f18-a62700893ccc.jpg?w=473\" class=\"wp-image-237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/b209fcfb-25b0-43b8-8f18-a62700893ccc.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/b209fcfb-25b0-43b8-8f18-a62700893ccc-139x300.jpg 139w, https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/b209fcfb-25b0-43b8-8f18-a62700893ccc-473x1024.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An email from a Marines recruiter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If we do the math using the figures in the email from a US Marines recruiter, $3500 for 6 weeks of training equates to $14.58 per hour and $5500 for 10 weeks of training equates to $13.75 per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How is it that the Department of the Navy can receive $212 billion in the 2022 US Budget and then proceed to pay less than $15 per hour? The US Marine Corps requested almost $50 billion for its operations alone. Military contracts to private military contractors is how they\u2019re able to pay personnel so little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Defense magazine outlined that: \u201cSome $700 million has been reallocated toward \u201cinvestment priorities,\u201d [which includes] long-range precision fires, networks and sensors as well as $20 million for updating manpower systems, and $150 million for training and education programs\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these line items has a slew of private contractors who profit off of the idea that America\u2019s naval might is flailing in comparison to China\u2019s specifically. Very few dollars is allocated to in-house development of these line items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The military industrial complex remains alive and well yet simultaneously somehow, Americas military might is somehow losing its power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe the idea of privatizing and outsourcing military should never have been a thing at all. Maybe it\u2019s time to reconsider allocating so many dollars to war mongering across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or at least pay those who want to serve in the Military better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we do the math using the figures in the email from a US Marines recruiter, $3500 for 6 weeks of training equates to $14.58 per hour and $5500 for 10 weeks of training equates to $13.75 per hour. How is it that the Department of the Navy can receive $212 billion in the 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[93,94,95,96,151,153,154],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-eds","tag-military","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-military-recruitment","tag-military-spending","tag-us-budget","tag-us-marine-corps","tag-usmc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mynci90.ngreensides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}