{"id":26405,"date":"2011-09-06T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26405"},"modified":"2011-09-06T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:23:12","slug":"from-basic-training-to-football-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26405","title":{"rendered":"From basic training to football practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Thul sends us a link to his hometown paper, the <a href=\"http:\/\/owatonna.com\/content\/changing-uniforms\">Owatonna Free Press<\/a>, which welcomes back some seniors from their summer vacation at basic training;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou come to football and practice for two hours, and maybe condition for 20 minutes,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cBut in basic we\u2019d be up at 4:30 a.m. to go do (physical training) for and hour-and-a-half, and it was constant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rygalski was a bit more blunt in his assessment of conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really feel challenged,\u201d Rygalski said.<\/p>\n<p>Some coaches might take those words as a challenge, but Tigers coach Jerome Johannes knew he wouldn\u2019t have to do a thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did that themselves,\u201d Johannes said of giving the soldiers a more intense training regimen. \u201cOne of the things they learned was giving everything 100 percent because if they did anything less, they probably had someone screaming in their face.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to personally welcome Matt Gengler, Chris Rygalski and Derek Shaw to our ranks. Gengler said he enlisted to spend time with his father who is currently deployed to Kuwait. I also commend the coach for allowing these fine gentlemen to start the football season two weeks late as opposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26165\">the boneheads in Illinois we read about last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Thul sends us a link to his hometown paper, the Owatonna Free Press, which welcomes &hellip; <a title=\"From basic training to football practice\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26405\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From basic training to football practice<\/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-26405","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\/26405","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=26405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}