{"id":105474,"date":"2020-09-26T08:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T12:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105474"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:14:21","slug":"marines-make-excellent-soldiers-over-half-a-marine-tank-company-just-joined-the-army-national-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105474","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Marines make excellent soldiers\u2019: Over half a Marine tank company just joined the Army National Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.645280.1600252346!\/image\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_900\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"290\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marines still in MARPAT uniforms being sworn into the Army National Guard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since the Marine Corps has axed their tanks, those Marines are looking for (going to channel Jeff LPH 3 here for a second)\u00a0<em>greener\u00a0<\/em>pastures with the Army.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"TX Body\">Over three-dozen former Marine Corps tank company members became soldiers last weekend, after their prior unit disbanded under a broader plan to redesign the service for more agile naval warfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TX Body\">The Marines, dressed in that service\u2019s digital camouflage, gathered Sunday at Gowen Field airport in Boise, Idaho, where they raised their right hands and became Idaho Army National Guardsmen, an online photo and caption showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TX Body\">All 39 of those transferring were reservists who\u2019d served in Company C, 4th Tank Battalion, which disbanded a month earlier, the Idaho Army National Guard said in a statement. Ten more from the company joined other states\u2019 National Guard units, it said. A tank company typically has about 80 Marines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brig. Gen. Farin Schwartz, commander of the Idaho Army National Guard said, \u201cMarines make excellent Soldiers. They each have the potential to make an immediate impact to their new unit and have already proven to be successful in the military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve worked with a lot of Marines. They&#8217;re usually great to work with, once you learn to use small words around them.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ninja for finding this one. More at the source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/marines-make-excellent-soldiers-over-half-a-marine-tank-company-just-joined-the-army-national-guard-1.645277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stars and Stripes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Marine Corps has axed their tanks, those Marines are looking for (going to channel &hellip; <a title=\"\u2018Marines make excellent soldiers\u2019: Over half a Marine tank company just joined the Army National Guard\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105474\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Marines make excellent soldiers\u2019: Over half a Marine tank company just joined the Army National Guard<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,189,184,331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-defense-cuts","category-marine-corps","category-marines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105503,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105474\/revisions\/105503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}