{"id":12722,"date":"2009-07-16T12:42:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12722"},"modified":"2009-07-16T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:42:51","slug":"we-had-an-xo-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12722","title":{"rendered":"We had an XO like that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Scott Tyson of the <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/battle-for-helmand\/2009\/07\/us_marines_pushing_deeper_into.html?hpid=artslot\">Washington Post<\/a> is embedded with Marines in the Helmand region of Afghanistan. Today&#8217;s article is about shortages of stuff the Marines need. After reading these last few paragraphs, I was reminded of our XO who drove four days in a Bradley to get us cigarettes and pogue bait while we spent Easter screening for the Shi&#8217;ites;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this week, Larosa decided to launch a one-man supply chain. Armed with orders from his men and a large plastic crate, he jumped on a helicopter to the nearest large base, Camp Leatherneck near the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah. Once there, armed with $1,200 of his own money, he literally stripped the PX shelves of cigarettes and chewing tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>Larosa\u2019s shopping spree irritated customers at Leatherneck, but, arriving back at the camp in Garmsir, he was greeted as a conquering hero. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The LaRousa in the story is a Marine Gunnery Sergeant but the effect is the same. What was his name, COB6?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Scott Tyson of the Washington Post is embedded with Marines in the Helmand region of &hellip; <a title=\"We had an XO like that\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12722\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We had an XO like that<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}