{"id":118468,"date":"2021-10-14T15:40:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=118468"},"modified":"2021-10-14T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T19:40:19","slug":"aww-not-this-s-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=118468","title":{"rendered":"Aww, Not This S*** Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nArkansas National Guard 1st Sgt. Kenneth Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n

Deja Moo, the feeling that one has lived through this bullshit before. Andy11M sends.<\/p>\n

We salute this Army first sergeant for looking exactly how we\u2019ve all felt in the field<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meet Army 1st Sgt. Kenneth “By God” Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n

BY JAMES CLARK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every once in a while a photo comes along that so perfectly captures an experience that it rises to the level of art.<\/p>\n

This photo of 1st Sgt. Kenneth Johnson with the Arkansas National Guard is that piece of art, and the experience that it captures is life in the field, and just how breathtakingly irritating it can be.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s there, etched upon Johnson\u2019s face as he looks off into the distance, past the camera held by Sgt. Marie Bryant, the photographer who snapped the image. Those eyes, reflecting both the wisdom and weariness that comes from leading, and at times herding, soldiers over a long career seem to narrow, though on what we do not know. Perhaps they\u2019ve set upon a lone private who\u2019s just now realized that he\u2019s been trying to insert his magazine into his rifle\u2019s magazine well the wrong way. Or maybe he\u2019s watching as a new second lieutenant instructs a platoon to pour individual bottles of water into a bunch of slightly larger jugs for no good reason. Or maybe he\u2019s just taking it all in \u2014 the whole military experience \u2014 and wondering to himself: Why the hell did I not get out back when I had the chance? Now I\u2019m carrying around this M4 with a damn BFA, again. And spending my weekend in the field, again<\/p>\n

Looking like Sam Elliott\u2019s Sgt. Maj. Plumley from \u201cWe Were Soldiers,\u201d Johnson appears as a man on a precipice, balanced in time between either barking obscenities at some wayward soldiers, or gruffly wondering aloud at whatever newfangled idiocy they\u2019ve wrought upon the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy god,\u201d he might say in a moment like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I never could think of enough things to tell my Airmen what NOT to do. Thus it always was, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the *grin* Andy.<\/p>\n

Task and Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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