{"id":22391,"date":"2011-02-24T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22391"},"modified":"2011-02-24T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:18:24","slug":"suspending-colonels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22391","title":{"rendered":"Suspending colonels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something weird is going on and it&#8217;s going on in numerical order. Last month I read about suspension of the 172d Brigade&#8217;s commander Col. Frank Zachar and his sergeant major. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/zachar-s-threatening-behavior-1.135799\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> writes a little about why;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zachar allegedly told a meeting: \u201cIt [is] all about loyalty. Performance does not matter, potential does not matter, only loyalty matters. If you are not loyal &#8230; you will not survive this brigade.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess now he&#8217;s sitting in a corner fingering two large balll bearings while explaining to no one there &#8220;Ahh, but the strawberries that&#8217;s&#8230; that&#8217;s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with&#8230; geometric logic&#8230; that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But today S<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/173rd-airborne-brigade-commander-suspended-1.135793\">&#038;S reported<\/a> they also suspended the commander of the 173rd Brigade;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army has formally suspended Col. James H. Johnson III as commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, which has about 3,300 soldiers in Italy and Germany. The Army took action Feb. 17, according to Col. Bryan Hilferty, chief of public affairs for U.S. Army Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been suspended,\u201d Hilferty said, declining to comment further since the case is under investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No idea where that came from. He just finished a successful deployment to Afghanistan. And no one is talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something weird is going on and it&#8217;s going on in numerical order. Last month I read &hellip; <a title=\"Suspending colonels\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22391\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suspending colonels<\/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-22391","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\/22391","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=22391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}