{"id":28180,"date":"2012-01-04T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28180"},"modified":"2012-01-04T08:21:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:21:58","slug":"a-real-deal-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28180","title":{"rendered":"A real deal SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Wolf sent us a link yesterday to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/national\/meet_the_big_shot_BxlVpxzQijkC9mwZcmwkrN\">New York Post<\/a> about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and it sounded too fake and I had to ask our friend Captain Larry Bailey if the guy was really a SEAL. Apparently he is. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During his 10-year career as a member of SEAL Team 3, Kyle, 37, saw action in every major battle during Operation Iraqi Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>He became known among his fellow SEALS as \u201cThe Legend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The enemy was less complimentary.<\/p>\n<p>In Ramadi, insurgents put an $80,000 bounty on his head and branded him \u201cAl-Shaitan Ramadi\u201d \u2014 \u201cThe Devil of Ramadi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat made me feel like I was actually doing my job and having an effect on the war,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was on Fox News a few times yesterday, too;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=1363164924001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Wolf sent us a link yesterday to the New York Post about Navy SEAL sniper &hellip; <a title=\"A real deal SEAL\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28180\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A real deal SEAL<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28180","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=28180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}