{"id":135703,"date":"2023-01-06T11:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135703"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:29:27","slug":"mg-ret-still-wants-to-be-the-center-of-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135703","title":{"rendered":"MG (ret) still wants to be the center of attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135704\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-135704 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Patrick_J._Donahoe-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Patrick_J._Donahoe-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Patrick_J._Donahoe-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Patrick_J._Donahoe-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Patrick_J._Donahoe-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Patrick_J._Donahoe-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Patrick_J._Donahoe-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major General Pat Donahoe (ret)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Remember this guy? The one who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=115884\">got into a Twitter spat with Tucker Carlson<\/a>? He&#8217;s Major General Pat (I&#8217;ll call him &#8220;The White Knight&#8221;) Donahoe. In 2021 he rustled a bunch of Jimmies by acting like a high school kid on Twitter. There were also accusations (that the IG investigation found unsubstantiated) that he was a toxic leader while in command of the Army Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation found that he did violate policy and acted unbecoming a general officer in his constant use of social media (where he very publicly was affiliated with the US Army and his then command). While he wasn&#8217;t cleared of all charges, he was allowed to retire (as planned before the Twitter kerfuffle) in grade as an O-8.<\/p>\n<p>Now that he&#8217;s a retired general, he wastes no time in talking to the media. He waited a whole three days to do a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2023\/01\/05\/pat-donahoe-civilian-wants-a-word-with-the-army\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=army-dnr\">tell-all with Army Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be &#8220;Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.&#8221; Now, it&#8217;s &#8220;Old soldiers never shut up.&#8221; Maybe he&#8217;s trying to get <a href=\"https:\/\/slaynews.com\/news\/adam-kinzinger-gives-up-game-lands-new-job-at-cnn-as-senior-political-commentator\/\">Kinzingered onto CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this guy? The one who got into a Twitter spat with Tucker Carlson? He&#8217;s Major &hellip; <a title=\"MG (ret) still wants to be the center of attention\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135703\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MG (ret) still wants to be the center of attention<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135703","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}