{"id":19959,"date":"2010-08-02T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T18:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19959"},"modified":"2010-08-02T14:52:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T18:52:24","slug":"20-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19959","title":{"rendered":"20 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/iraq-invades.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19960 aligncenter\" title=\"iraq-invades\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/iraq-invades.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/iraq-invades.jpg 328w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/iraq-invades-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COB6 wrote to remind me that Hussein&#8217;s Iraq invaded Kuwait twenty years ago today beginning the wars we in which we are still engaged. <\/p>\n<p>COB6 says he was going to the wash rack that day on Garlstedt&#8217;s Clay Kaserne when he found his troops engaged in a water fight. This caused him some thoughts on taking these guys to a war.<\/p>\n<p>I was driving up the east coast on I95 from another seven weeks of playing TAC NCO at Cadet Command&#8217;s Region One Advanced Camp on Fort Bragg thinking I was stabilized for two more years at the University of Vermont. Within a month I was packing my bags to take over a platoon in Co. C 1\/41st with COB6 in a sister platoon and less than a month later we were alerted for (then) Desert Shield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COB6 wrote to remind me that Hussein&#8217;s Iraq invaded Kuwait twenty years ago today beginning the &hellip; <a title=\"20 years ago today\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19959\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 years ago today<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19959","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=19959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}