{"id":107103,"date":"2020-11-09T15:20:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107103"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:20:36","slug":"esper-out-as-secdef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107103","title":{"rendered":"Esper out as SecDef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mark-Esper-640x427-e1561219918154.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mark-Esper-640x427-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a move that I don&#8217;t think surprised anyone, Mark Esper is the latest to receive the &#8220;You&#8217;re fired&#8221; from President Trump. Christopher Miller has been named acting SecDef.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The announcement marks a meteoric rise for Miller, who served in the Army from 1987 through 2014, over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>From 2018 to 2019, Miller served as a special assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism and transnational threats at the National Security Council. In January, he was sworn in as deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combating terrorism, a job four levels down from defense secretary, and then was quickly boosted to fill in as performing the duties of assistant secretary of defense for special operations. He was sworn into the National Counterterrorism Center role in August.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement marks a meteoric rise for Miller, who served in the Army from 1987 through 2014, over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>From 2018 to 2019, Miller served as a special assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism and transnational threats at the National Security Council. In January, he was sworn in as deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combating terrorism, a job four levels down from defense secretary, and then was quickly boosted to fill in as performing the duties of assistant secretary of defense for special operations. He was sworn into the National Counterterrorism Center role in August.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article then goes into some Orange Man Bad, some piss-poor reporting [i.e. they just lie] on what happened in Lafayette Park back in June, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jeff LPH 3 for bringing this on in.<\/p>\n<p>Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2020\/11\/09\/esper-fired-as-secretary-of-defense\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Breaking%20News%2011-09-20&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Breaking%20News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defense News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that I don&#8217;t think surprised anyone, Mark Esper is the latest to receive &hellip; <a title=\"Esper out as SecDef\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107103\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Esper out as SecDef<\/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":[220,237,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-big-pentagon","category-guest-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107103","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=107103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107104,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107103\/revisions\/107104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}