{"id":12933,"date":"2009-05-21T21:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T21:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/army_blasted_for_letting_drug_abusers_slide\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T21:33:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T21:33:56","slug":"army_blasted_for_letting_drug_abusers_slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12933","title":{"rendered":"Army blasted for letting drug abusers slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army commanders are failing to punish or seek treatment for a growing number of soldiers who test positive for substance abuse, possibly because they don&#8217;t want to lose any more combat troops, the Army&#8217;s vice chief of staff has warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a May 8 memo to commanders provided to USA TODAY, Gen. Peter Chiarelli said hundreds of soldiers involved in &#8220;substance abuse-related misconduct (including multiple positive urinalyses)&#8221; were not processed for possible discharge. He also noted that many are not referred to the Army Substance Abuse Program for help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/military\/2009-05-20-drug_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army commanders are failing to punish or seek treatment for a growing number of soldiers who test positive for substance abuse, possibly because they don&#8217;t want to lose any more combat troops, the Army&#8217;s vice chief of staff has warned.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12933\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,99,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}