{"id":20684,"date":"2010-10-01T06:54:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T10:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20684"},"modified":"2010-10-01T06:54:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T10:54:03","slug":"the-last-draftee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20684","title":{"rendered":"The last draftee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/the-last-draftee-who-645726.html\">a link about Chief Warrant Officer Clyde Greene<\/a> who may be the last draftee who went to Vietnam to leave the service almost forty years later;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to join the Army,\u201d Clyde Green said last week. \u201cThe Army came and got me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he retires as a chief warrant officer in a ceremony Thursday morning at Ft. McPherson &#8212; after 39 years, 9 months and 15 days of continuous active duty \u2013 he will be, by the best accounting, the last U.S. Army draftee who fought in Vietnam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chief Greene, from Orangeburg, SC, is probably the best living proofthat the Army is an acquired taste;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was cold and really tough at first,\u201d he said. \u201cBut then I kind of got where I enjoyed it, once I figured out who was in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The discipline of military life he had feared became a comfort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I liked the order,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan sends us a link about Chief Warrant Officer Clyde Greene who may be the last &hellip; <a title=\"The last draftee\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20684\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The last draftee<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684","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=20684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}