{"id":13410,"date":"2009-08-09T07:39:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T12:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13410"},"modified":"2009-08-09T07:39:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T12:39:33","slug":"the-post-in-which-i-torque-off-cob6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13410","title":{"rendered":"The post in which I Torque off COB6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guy who used to sit next to me in our Bradley turret during Desert Storm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msco.mil\/DepDirectorBio.html\">sent me this link<\/a> and I couldn&#8217;t resist poking the bear. The fellow whose bio is at that link did his level best to get COB6&#8217;s ass shot off at a place in Iraq forever known now as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_73_Easting\">73 Easting<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Army had the good sense to keep him from having anymore command assignments. I can&#8217;t mention his name because COB6 has forbidden it. <\/p>\n<p>This (now) colonel and I had several run-ins, too, but they were more a clash of egos &#8211; he never tried to convince me to change direction 180 degrees and attack a company of M1s head-on. At night. In a 360-degree armor battle wherein the M1s had already taken out a sister company&#8217;s platoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guy who used to sit next to me in our Bradley turret during Desert Storm &hellip; <a title=\"The post in which I Torque off COB6\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13410\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The post in which I Torque off COB6<\/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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410","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=13410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}