{"id":22246,"date":"2011-02-10T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22246"},"modified":"2011-02-10T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T20:11:59","slug":"rumor-doctor-looks-at-the-fifty-cal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22246","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Doctor looks at the fifty-cal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this rumor throughout my career, but I never paid much attention to it. It seems to me that the Army wouldn&#8217;t give me a primary weapon in the cupola of my M113 if I couldn&#8217;t defend myself with it. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/the-rumor-doctor\/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348\/can-you-use-the-50-caliber-on-human-targets-1.134278\">the Rumor Doctor<\/a> looks at the use of the devastating 50 cal. Ma Deuce against dismounted troops.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legend has it that the .50-caliber is so powerful that the Geneva Conventions prohibit U.S. troops from using it against human targets, but does that make sense considering it is okay to fire much larger artillery shells against enemy troops?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Find out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/the-rumor-doctor\/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348\/can-you-use-the-50-caliber-on-human-targets-1.134278\">truth at the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Rumor Doctor hisself for sending us the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this rumor throughout my career, but I never paid much attention to it. It &hellip; <a title=\"Rumor Doctor looks at the fifty-cal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22246\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rumor Doctor looks at the fifty-cal<\/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-22246","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\/22246","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=22246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}