{"id":154545,"date":"2024-03-18T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=154545"},"modified":"2024-03-18T09:59:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:59:58","slug":"good-order-and-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=154545","title":{"rendered":"Good Order and Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154547 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/army.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"239\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Major Patrick Sorensen<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Army major honors fallen soldiers with Native eagle feathers in hair<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Granted a religious accommodation to wear eagle feathers, Maj. Patrick Sorensen said each represent a fallen soldier or comrade he has served with.<\/em><br \/>\nBY PATTY NIEBERG<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Army Major who posted portraits in full uniform while wearing traditional Native American eagle feathers in his hair, said the pictures are a tribute to both his Native identity and fallen soldiers he served with. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wear these medals on our chest and they represent the different achievements and deployments and things that we\u2019ve gone through in our military service,\u201d Maj. Patrick Sorensen told Task &#038; Purpose. \u201cFor me, I think it\u2019s more important that I recognize and remember my soldiers and so I wear my five feathers to represent the soldiers that I\u2019ve lost.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sorensen, a <strong>marketing and public affairs officer<\/strong> at the Army\u2019s Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, is one of just a handful of military members granted a religious exemption to wear Native American dress and hairstyles with his Army uniform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/army-major-native-hair-feathers\/\">Task and Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would never accuse the good Major of being a transparent self-indulgent attention whore, but why not wear the uniform with pride and keep the dead animal parts to more appropriate garb.<br \/>\nJust me. Thanks to Andy11M for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Patrick Sorensen Army major honors fallen soldiers with Native eagle feathers in hair Granted a &hellip; <a title=\"Good Order and Discipline\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=154545\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Order and Discipline<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":154547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-warrior-code","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154545","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}