{"id":10797,"date":"2009-05-20T09:36:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10797"},"modified":"2009-05-20T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T14:36:17","slug":"more-proof-that-no-one-at-the-new-yorker-has-an-anus-or-military-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10797","title":{"rendered":"More proof that no one at the New Yorker has an Anus, or military experience&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2009\/05\/disconnect-between-journalists-the-military-everything-else.html\">Background is over at Blackfive<\/a>, but from <a href=\"http:\/\/danbaum.com\/Nine_Lives\/Articles_files\/The%20Casualty.pdf\">Dan Baum&#8217;s New Yorker article entitled The Casualty <\/a>I give you&#8230;..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His score on the Army entrance exam wasn\u2019t high enough to get him into electronics, but it qualified him to be an \u201ceightyeight mike\u201d\u2014a truck driver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two decorations hold particular fascination for soldiers who are shipping out. The Combat Infantryman Badge, or C.I.B., is awarded for spending at least sixty days under fire. The Purple Heart goes to soldiers wounded by enemy action. Together, they mean that a soldier has experienced the essence of warfare. What soldiers want when they envision the Purple Heart is to get shot, patched up, and returned to their platoons in one piece. When Cain left for Iraq, he knew he\u2019d get his C.I.B. But he also boasted to his mother that he\u2019d win a Purple Heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh yeah?  The 88M got a CIB?  Guaranteed eh?  Man, I wasted a shitload of time going 11B when I could have gone 88M just to get the CIB, eh?  Can a cook get it?  How about a LTC\/MSG Nurse?<\/p>\n<p>Vigorously factchecked no doubt by this dude:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K7qHmqQWLyw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K7qHmqQWLyw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background is over at Blackfive, but from Dan Baum&#8217;s New Yorker article entitled The Casualty I &hellip; <a title=\"More proof that no one at the New Yorker has an Anus, or military experience&#8230;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10797\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More proof that no one at the New Yorker has an Anus, or military experience&#8230;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}