{"id":29223,"date":"2011-11-09T16:45:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_few_pentagon_mentors_remain\/"},"modified":"2011-11-09T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:45:37","slug":"usa_today_few_pentagon_mentors_remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29223","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Few Pentagon &#39;mentors&#39; remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon&#8217;s use of retired generals and admirals as paid advisers has virtually ceased, plummeting from 355 &#8220;senior mentors&#8221; in 2010 to four today, according to a report released by the Defense Department&#8217;s inspector general.<\/p>\n<p>Requirements to disclose their business ties, a cap on pay of $179,700 per year and limits on working for private firms were the reasons the generals and admirals gave for quitting the program, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Retired officers from several services told investigators they quit because they did not want to disclose their finances publicly. Others pointed to the pay of $86.10 per hour, with a maximum of $179,900, as too low.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/NEWS\/usaedition\/2011-11-08-Mentors_ST_U.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon&#8217;s use of retired generals and admirals as paid advisers has virtually ceased, plummeting from 355 &#8220;senior mentors&#8221; in 2010 to four today, according to a report released by the Defense Department&#8217;s inspector general. Requirements to disclose their business<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29223\">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":[39,40,50,103,209,143,111,129,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-education","category-psychology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29223","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=29223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}