{"id":113168,"date":"2021-05-03T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=113168"},"modified":"2021-05-02T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T01:28:02","slug":"veteran-embodies-article-iii-of-the-code-of-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=113168","title":{"rendered":"Veteran embodies Article III of the Code of Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Article III<\/em><\/h3>\n

If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All veterans can attest to the power of our programming and indoctrination. Sometimes it’s little things, like years and decades past basic training we can’t put on a belt without straightening it with the seam of the zipper. Sometimes it’s bigger things like rote memorization of the Code of Conduct, part of which is listed above.<\/p>\n

Poetrooper sends in a story of one elderly vet who is refusing to stay captured. Sadly his “enemy” isn’t a hostile foreign force, but a memory care facility whose care he’s been entrusted to. You see, this fella and his lady are suffering from the insidious and heartbreaking dementia and Alzheimer’s. While he might forget many things, his military training he has not forgotten.<\/p>\n

Fox News reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A Tennessee assisted living facility faces hefty fines after two residents escaped in March thanks to some military training, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Elmcroft Senior Living in Lebanon must pay $2,000 for failing to provide daily awareness for the whereabouts of two residents who briefly escaped from the secure memory unit on March 2.<\/p>\n

The couple, a husband and wife team who remain unnamed in public records, suffers from dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease, but they had their wits about them as the husband used his military training with Morse code to figure out the facility’s electric lock code, the Tennessean reported.<\/p>\n

The husband would listen as staff punched the code in, and he was able to figure out the pattern. He made a break for it with his wife, managing just 30 minutes of freedom before a stranger found the couple wandering two blocks from the facility.<\/p>\n

Staff were meant to increase their check-ins with the husband starting in February after he displayed concerning habits, such as wandering about and repeatedly seeking exits, FOX 23 reported.<\/p>\n

He had scheduled times to walk outdoors to mitigate these habits, but it did little to deter his urge to escape.<\/p>\n

“The safety of our residents is the top priority at our senior living community. We are thankful both residents were returned to the community safely,” read a statement from Elmcroft. “We reported the situation to the state and their family immediately after it happened and fully cooperated with the state during its review.”<\/p>\n

The facility changed all of its exit codes following the incident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll go out on a limb that this wasn’t any Morse Code, since a keypad doesn’t normally work on such. What this old vet is is likely a recovering Signal Corps-type who dealt with touchtones. Maybe an old school telephone phreak.<\/p>\n

Regardless of his former MOS, he clearly won’t be imprisoned. He escapes for what I’m sure was a glorious 30 minute walk with his lady on his arm. You have to respect that. To paraphrase Mel Gibson’s William Wallace, “they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!!!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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