{"id":27972,"date":"2011-12-17T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27972"},"modified":"2011-12-17T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T20:56:18","slug":"the-right-man-in-the-right-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27972","title":{"rendered":"The Right Man in the Right Place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Joe Galloway and FB. Just me proud enough to share here. Unfortunately the story is via Those people?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2011\/12\/15\/133240\/last-us-base-in-iraq-prepares.html?storylink=addthis#.Tuz2p8gJKy4.facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Last U.S. base in Iraq prepares to turn out the lights<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CAMP ADDER, Iraq \u2014 The young Army officer who&#8217;s in charge of logistics at the last U.S. base in Iraq is a Sudanese refugee, one of the &#8220;lost boys&#8221; who fled their war-ravaged homeland in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p>His staff sergeant survived a deadly improvised-explosives attack during his third tour here in 2005, then returned for two more.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are the ones that are going to sort of turn out the lights and close out Iraq,&#8221; said Capt. David Moses, 30, who was born in South Sudan and fled the civil war there as an adolescent, eventually landing in Utah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ETA: Joe busted my chops some about McClatchy and Dakota Meyer. I still think that story was , at best,\u00a0 &#8220;damning with faint praise&#8221;. Gonna keep me skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Joe Galloway and FB. Just me proud enough to share here. Unfortunately the story is &hellip; <a title=\"The Right Man in the Right Place?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27972\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Right Man in the Right Place?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27972","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}