{"id":28312,"date":"2012-01-13T15:59:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T19:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28312"},"modified":"2012-01-13T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:36:06","slug":"usmc-orders-potty-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28312","title":{"rendered":"NATO orders potty training for Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol, formerly of the Stars &#038; Stripes and currently of the Air Force Times sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2012\/01\/marine-urination-video-taliban-curtis-scaparrotti-011312w\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a> which reports that the three-star commander of all NATO has ordered potty training for the Marines;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Army Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti] said in his letter that all commanders should ensure their subordinates understand what the law of armed conflict includes, \u201cespecially regarding the appropriate treatment of the dead.\u201d He added that \u201cdefiling, desecrating, mocking, photographing or filming for personal use\u201d bodies of dead insurgents is a \u201cgrave breach\u201d of that law, and should be reported by those who see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch actions bring dishonor to those who commit them, and violate the core values of all military services, regardless of service or nation,\u201d the general said. \u201cSuch actions break our faith with the Afghan people, who trust us to uphold standards of law and decency, and to treat the living and the dead with dignity and respect.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, ok, so the general didn&#8217;t order potty training, it&#8217;s just that I couldn&#8217;t resist. Sorry. Call me names.<\/p>\n<p>So, like I said on the radio, this has all been blown out of proportion by the media hungry for writing about images of pee-pees and wee-wees of Marines. So, the investigation is being handled by Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, commander of Marine Corps Forces Central Command, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marines-name-general-to-handle-investigation-of-video-1.165890\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, the Defense Secretary has condemned the video, the NATO commander has ordered that the Law of Land Warfare training is reinforced among the troops still in theater. So can we all move along and let the wheels of military justice turn?<\/p>\n<p>I noticed in the reportage, because I had to watch VTWoody on CBS this morning, that the two day old story still led CBS&#8217; news, but they&#8217;d changed the story to &#8220;the video appears to show&#8230;&#8221; instead of &#8220;the video shows&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Like I said initially, it might be that we&#8217;re being pranked. We won&#8217;t know until Jethro Gibbs and Ziva at NCIS finish their sweat box questioning with Abby in the lab testing the urine while &#8220;Probie&#8221; McGee works his computer magic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol, formerly of the Stars &#038; Stripes and currently of the Air Force &hellip; <a title=\"NATO orders potty training for Marines\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28312\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NATO orders potty training for Marines<\/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-28312","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\/28312","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=28312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}