{"id":20904,"date":"2010-10-20T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20904"},"modified":"2010-10-20T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:55:59","slug":"seal-may-be-punished-for-aid-worker-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20904","title":{"rendered":"SEAL may be punished for aid worker death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unnamed SEAL may face disciplinary measures as US commanders armchair review the videos of the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove, a captured aid worker who was being held by insurgents and was facing a public and gruesome  death.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/seal-may-face-punishment-for-aid-worker-death.html?col=1186032325324\">Military.com\/AFP<\/a> link)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the SEAL failed to see her and tossed a fragmentation grenade close to where she was hiding, and it exploded next to her, said the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue was ordered because officials concluded Norgrove&#8217;s life was in grave danger, with her captors talking about murdering her, based on eavesdropping of radio conversations and other intelligence, the paper reported. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I always loved being second-guessed by pogues in their starch and shined uniforms miles from the action. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the SEAL is being investigated for not being able to see through walls in the dark. Where was he during the &#8220;remote viewing&#8221; block of instruction? The only credible reason for punishing him is if during the operation order he was told in which building she was being held, or if they were told not to suppress fire from buildings with grenades.<\/p>\n<p>I read an article yesterday about the troops being disillusioned with the restrictions on them in regards to the ROE and the diplomatic efforts in Afghanistan. This investigation probably won&#8217;t help them much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unnamed SEAL may face disciplinary measures as US commanders armchair review the videos of the &hellip; <a title=\"SEAL may be punished for aid worker death\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20904\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEAL may be punished for aid worker death<\/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":[84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904","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=20904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}