{"id":15358,"date":"2009-10-30T14:42:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15358"},"modified":"2009-10-30T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T21:06:54","slug":"um-valour-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15358","title":{"rendered":"Um, VALOUR-IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Little Creek, Virginia a few decades ago where the Marines introduced us to amphibious warfare. They began by taking us to their obstacle course and bragging about the course record set by a Marine and daring us to beat it. The instructors stood gape-jawed at the finish line as every person in the company beat their &#8220;course record&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I wrote that to write this;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not accustomed to not beating a Marine challenge. The Marines are a several hundred dollars ahead of the Army in the VALOUR-IT fundraiser, so what with it being payday and such, how about digging in. We&#8217;re almost at a third of our goal &#8211; so lets kick some Marine ass;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;\" border=0 width=0 height=0 src=\"http:\/\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEyNTY5MzY2NzQ1NjgmcHQ9MTI1NjkzNjY4OTgyMiZwPTg5NTg*MSZkPSZnPTEmbz1hNzQzYzkyZTFiMDk*OGEzOGRiN2EwNzY*ODc1MzUxOSZvZj*w.gif\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><object id=\"gauge\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\" height=\"300\" align=\"\"><param value=\"http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/gauge.swf?stage_width=400&#038;stage_height=300&#038;xml_source=http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/all4gauge.php&#038;time=1256936760\" name=\"movie\"\/><param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\"\/><param value=\"\" name=\"bgcolor\"\/><embed pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" quality=\"high\" align=\"\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/gauge.swf?stage_width=400&#038;stage_height=300&#038;xml_source=http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/all4gauge.php&#038;time=1256936760\" bgcolor=\"\" width=\"400\" name=\"gauge\" FlashVars=\"gig_lt=1256936674568&#038;gig_pt=1256936689822&#038;gig_g=1\"><\/embed><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"gig_lt=1256936674568&#038;gig_pt=1256936689822&#038;gig_g=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;\" border=0 width=0 height=0 src=\"http:\/\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEyNTYzMDkwMDUxNDImcHQ9MTI1NjMwOTAyOTI1MSZwPTg5NTg*MSZkPSZnPTEmbz*3YWJkMjBlODA2NzA*Yzg2YTVmNmQ3NDA1YjYwMTY5MSZvZj*w.gif\" \/><object id=\"gauge\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"200\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\" height=\"150\" align=\"\"><param value=\"http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/gauge.swf?stage_width=200&#038;stage_height=150&#038;xml_source=http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/therm4sm.php%3Ftime%3D0.26440600+1128349620\" name=\"movie\"\/><param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\"\/><param value=\"\" name=\"bgcolor\"\/><embed pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" quality=\"high\" align=\"\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/gauge.swf?stage_width=200&#038;stage_height=150&#038;xml_source=http:\/\/soldiersangels.org\/therm4sm.php%3Ftime%3D0.26440600+1128349620\" bgcolor=\"\" width=\"200\" name=\"gauge\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I have other Marine stories I might relate through the weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Little Creek, Virginia a few decades ago where the Marines introduced us to &hellip; <a title=\"Um, VALOUR-IT\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15358\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Um, VALOUR-IT<\/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":[53,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soldiers-angels","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358","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=15358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}