{"id":127,"date":"2007-10-02T19:52:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T23:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:38:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:38:02","slug":"gao-publishes-conscientious-objector-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/gao-publishes-conscientious-objector-study\/","title":{"rendered":"GAO Publishes Conscientious Objector Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the direction of Congress, the Government Accounting Office conducted a study of conscientious objectors, the trends in the military, and the military processes.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/docsearch\/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-07-1196\">summary<\/a> of the report, which also contains a link to the full report, indicates that over the past 5 years there have been 425 applications for conscientious objector status; 53% were approved and 44% were denied, with the others having some form of administrative status.\u00a0 Of those that were approved, all but 14 received honorable discharges.\u00a0 The remainder received &#8220;general&#8221; discharges.\u00a0 Average time for application processing was 7 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the direction of Congress, the Government Accounting Office conducted a study of conscientious objectors, the trends in the military, and the military processes. A summary of the report, which also contains a link to the full report, indicates that over the past 5 years there have been 425 applications for conscientious objector status; 53% were approved and 44% were [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[46,2,10],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-conscientious-objector","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}