{"id":27479,"date":"2011-11-14T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27479"},"modified":"2012-02-03T02:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T06:16:43","slug":"scott-olsen-confirms-that-which-we-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27479","title":{"rendered":"Scott Olsen confirms that which we knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ex-marine-injured-oakland-protest-makes-public-statement-042842782.html\">Reuters reports<\/a> that Scott Olsen the former Marine who was injured at Occupy Oakland has issued a statement most of which <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/story?section=news\/local\/east_bay&#038;id=8429306\">we already knew<\/a>, but were excoriated for voicing over the last few weeks;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olsen served two tours in Iraq, working as a technician and earning a handful of service medals.<\/p>\n<p>Friends say he soured on military life after leaving the service and started a now-defunct website called &#8220;I hate the Marine Corps&#8221; which served as a forum for disgruntled servicemen.<\/p>\n<p>Olsen received an &#8220;administrative discharge&#8221; from the service in late 2009, his uncle George Nygaard has said, though the precise reasons for it have not been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Such a discharge can result from any number of behavioral or disciplinary issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, his discharge probably had nothing to do with the pictures on his Flickr page &#8211; those pictures of marijuana  plants.<\/p>\n<p>This should serve as an warning to those fucksticks and all of those hippies writing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27454\">New York Times<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27371\">Columbia Journalism Review<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27359\">Village Voice<\/a> &#8211; veterans can judge the service of other veterans without official documentation &#8211; that&#8217;s why Milblogs exist &#8211; to school you scumbag journalists who won&#8217;t take the time to do your research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that Scott Olsen the former Marine who was injured at Occupy Oakland has issued &hellip; <a title=\"Scott Olsen confirms that which we knew\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27479\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scott Olsen confirms that which we knew<\/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":[131,190,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies","category-occupy","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479","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=27479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}