{"id":108457,"date":"2020-12-18T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108457"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:58:16","slug":"australian-soldier-steps-down-after-drinking-out-of-fake-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108457","title":{"rendered":"Australian Soldier Steps Down After Drinking Out of Fake Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fake-leg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fake-leg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fake-leg.jpg 472w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fake-leg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fake-leg-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fake-leg-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">Well, here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/innovation\/military\/special-forces-soldier-steps-down-after-drinking-out-of-dead-mans-fake-leg\/news-story\/1feff2a0e8f87d09a840d5c6a46c3010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news.au.com<\/a> published a story talking about an Australian Special Forces soldier who stepped down after he was identified as the one drinking out of the prosthetic leg of a dead man.\u00a0 The photo was taken of him while he was serving in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/innovation\/military\/special-forces-soldier-steps-down-after-drinking-out-of-dead-mans-fake-leg\/news-story\/1feff2a0e8f87d09a840d5c6a46c3010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Special forces soldier steps down after drinking out of dead man\u2019s fake leg<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">One of Australia\u2019s top special forces soldiers has stood down after a shocking photo emerged of him drinking from a prosthetic leg belonging to a dead Afghan man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">Warrant Officer John Letch, Command Sergeant Major of Special Operations Command, has stepped down from his duties and is now considering his options following the photo controversy, according to <i><a title=\"www.theaustralian.com.au\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/nation\/top-special-forces-soldier-steps-down-over-legdrink-photo\/news-story\/9655899df0a65509a2e136c1a34a72dc\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" data-tgev-order=\"9655899df0a65509a2e136c1a34a72dc\" data-tgev-label=\"nation\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\">The Australian<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">The publication also revealed former Special Air Service Regiment and Special Operations Task Group commander Jono Beesley has stepped down following the publication of the <a title=\"afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au\" href=\"https:\/\/afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-11\/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf\">Brereton Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">A pixelated photo of Warrant Officer Letch drinking out of the fake leg of a dead man in Afghanistan was published by <i><a title=\"www.theguardian.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/au\">The Guardian\u00a0<\/a><\/i>earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"story-content\">\n<p>In case some of you need a rule of thumb:\u00a0 A lady&#8217;s high heel &#8211; yes.\u00a0 A fake leg &#8211; no.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Crikey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day.\u00a0 The news.au.com published a story talking about an &hellip; <a title=\"Australian Soldier Steps Down After Drinking Out of Fake Leg\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108457\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australian Soldier Steps Down After Drinking Out of Fake Leg<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":108458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,301,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-afghanistan","category-aussies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108457","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108462,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108457\/revisions\/108462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}