{"id":26043,"date":"2011-08-01T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26043"},"modified":"2011-08-01T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T20:14:46","slug":"ivaws-sf-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26043","title":{"rendered":"IVAW&#8217;s SF trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>StrikeFO found another IVAW member, but this one borders on a phony soldier. Michael Bailey of the 21st Chemical Company of the 7th Special Forces Group &#8211; except that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.army.mil\/html\/forcestruc\/lineages\/branches\/chem\/021cmco.htm\">21st Chemical Co. is part of the 82d Airborne Division<\/a>, not the 7th SFG. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/agency\/army\/21chem.htm\">Global Security<\/a>, their mission is to provide &#8220;direct smoke and decontamination support to their respective brigades&#8221; not what Bailey says about his job;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bailey-IVAW-profile.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26042\" title=\"Bailey IVAW profile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bailey-IVAW-profile.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bailey-IVAW-profile.png 644w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bailey-IVAW-profile-300x294.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whatever the hell is &#8220;Sensitive Site Exploitation Operator, Forensic Chemical Analyst, Exploitation Ananlysis [sic] Cell Technician&#8221; yeah, those are allin the MPs&#8217; job description not a chemical operations specialist. In fact according to the Army, Bailey&#8217;s job was described thusly;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Skill Level 1 MOSC 74D1O. Operates and performs operator maintenance on smoke generating equipment, NBC identification\/detection and decontamination equipment, performs NBC reconnaissance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice try, Mikey.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When my commanders, my senior NCOs, and my team cannot truly define why they are still fighting, I had no choice but to turn to introspection. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what a lot of privates do when they think they&#8217;re smarter than their leaders. Usually their answers are vacuous and selfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StrikeFO found another IVAW member, but this one borders on a phony soldier. Michael Bailey of &hellip; <a title=\"IVAW&#8217;s SF trooper\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26043\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IVAW&#8217;s SF trooper<\/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":[8,37,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26043","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=26043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}