{"id":26631,"date":"2016-10-24T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=26631"},"modified":"2016-10-24T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:32:34","slug":"california-national-guard-welcomes-congress-to-waive-soldier-incentive-bonus-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=26631","title":{"rendered":"California National Guard Welcomes Congress To Waive Soldier Incentive &#038; Bonus Debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230; Pertaining to the recent Los Angeles Times story on National Guard bonus recoupment, the California Military Department offers the following statement:<br \/>\n&#8220;The bonus audit and recoupment process is a federal program governed and adjudicated by the National Guard Bureau and the Department of the Army.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/logo-CALGUARD.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/logo-CALGUARD.png\" alt=\"logo-calguard\" width=\"223\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/logo-CALGUARD.png 223w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/logo-CALGUARD-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/logo-CALGUARD-30x30.png 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The California National Guard does not have the authority to unilaterally waive these debts. However, the California National Guard welcomes any law passed by Congress to waive these debts.<br \/>\nUntil that time, our priority is to advocate for our Soldiers through this difficult process.<br \/>\nTo that end, shortly after his appointment as the state&#8217;s adjutant general in 2011, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin established the California National Guard Soldier Incentives Assistance Center which has allowed our soldiers to retain $37 million dollars of original bonus payments. Without this initiative 100 percent of the soldiers would have had to pay back 100 percent of the money.<br \/>\nIt is our intent to continue working with all parties involved to further advocate for our soldiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230; Pertaining to the recent Los Angeles Times story on National Guard bonus recoupment, the California Military Department offers the following statement: &#8220;The bonus audit and recoupment process is a federal program governed and adjudicated by the National Guard Bureau and the Department of the Army. The California National Guard does not have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":26632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","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":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/logo-CALGUARD.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}