{"id":30375,"date":"2012-06-13T10:52:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30375"},"modified":"2012-06-13T10:52:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:52:45","slug":"change-of-command-at-bennings-maneuver-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30375","title":{"rendered":"Change of command at Benning&#8217;s Maneuver Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country Singer writes to remind us that, probably one of the most famous commanders of Desert Storm, (now) Major General Herbert Raymond McMasters has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2012\/06\/army-mcmaster-maneuver-center-excellence-command-061112\/\">assumed command of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, GA.<\/a> He was also promoted to his second star. MG McMaster commanded &#8220;Eagle Troop&#8221; of the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benning.army.mil\/Library\/content\/McMasterHR%20CPT_Battleof73Easting.pdf\">Battle of 73 Easting<\/a> (Objective Norfolk). In my opinion, for whatever that&#8217;s worth, there is probably no one more suited to the job as MG McMaster.<\/p>\n<p>COB6 and I had the pleasure of passing through then-CPT McMaster&#8217;s unit at oh-dark-thirty on the morning following his troops&#8217; engagement with the enemy and witnessed up-close the destruction they had wrought on the Iraqis there. If I&#8217;m not mistaken, we rounded up over eighty thoroughly demoralized prisoners that day who surrendered to a sniper and some mechanics who were fixing our CO&#8217;s Bradley which had thrown a track in the middle of the carnage.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I don&#8217;t have many officers who are my personal heroes, but HR McMasters is one of two &#8211; the other being COB6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country Singer writes to remind us that, probably one of the most famous commanders of Desert &hellip; <a title=\"Change of command at Benning&#8217;s Maneuver Center\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30375\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Change of command at Benning&#8217;s Maneuver Center<\/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-30375","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\/30375","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=30375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}