{"id":21886,"date":"2011-01-14T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21886"},"modified":"2011-01-14T16:36:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T20:36:56","slug":"another-reason-i-dislike-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21886","title":{"rendered":"Another reason I dislike civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2011\/01\/watertown_cab_driver_accused_o.html\">1stCavRVN11B sent me this link<\/a> and reminded me of how my intense dislike of civilians began while I was an active duty private.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Jan. 3, several soldiers stationed at Fort Drum were waiting for a shuttle back to the base after flying into the airport. Because of the long wait, a soldier contacted Phenix Cab Co. to find out the fare to the base and was quoted a price of $90. The soldier informed the cab company that there were three going to the base for the $90 fare.<\/p>\n<p>When Lavery arrived, he solicited another two soldiers to join the cab ride with the agreement that $90 would cover all five.<\/p>\n<p>When the cab arrived at the Northern New York base, Lavery told the five that the price was $90 per person and that they owed him $450, not $90.<\/p>\n<p>During the discussion on the rate for the ride, Lavery threatened to have the five arrested and called the military police. When the MPs arrived, Lavery told them he increased the amount for the trip because he had to drive through bad weather. When MPs said the rate sounded excessive, Lavery said he didn\u2019t care and threatened the soldiers with criminal charges. Knowing that criminal charges could hurt their military careers, the soldiers paid the $450. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, MPs. Lavery has since been charged with grand larceny. By the way, it&#8217;s about sixty miles from Syracuse to the barracks on Drum. And it&#8217;s all highway. For $450 they could have rented a car and bought a week&#8217;s worth of groceries and intoxicants.<\/p>\n<p>But that taxi ride is a metaphor for how northern NYers are taking the whole Fort Drum community for an expensive ride. Government housing is spread out over three counties so all of the towns can get a piece of soldiers&#8217; paychecks. Young spouses get to the commissary for groceries with Bluebird buses and it&#8217;s almost an all day excursion. And don&#8217;t get me started on the lack of a military hospital. Thank the current Army Secretary McHugh, who was the congressional representation for the area, for that cobbled-together design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1stCavRVN11B sent me this link and reminded me of how my intense dislike of civilians began &hellip; <a title=\"Another reason I dislike civilians\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21886\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another reason I dislike civilians<\/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":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886","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=21886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}