{"id":31536,"date":"2012-08-15T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T23:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31536"},"modified":"2012-08-15T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T23:09:25","slug":"africom-commander-facing-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31536","title":{"rendered":"AFRICOM commander facing dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how I didn&#8217;t know this but the commander of Africa Command, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africom.mil\/ward.asp\">Gen. William E. Kip Ward<\/a>, was my Battalion XO in 1\/7th Inf back in the 3rd ID in Aschaffenburg, Germany. He was one of the best infantry officers I&#8217;ve ever known. We bumped into each other at Fort Drum and he remembered me even though I was one of countless platoon sergeants in the battalion. I loved that guy. <\/p>\n<p>But, it looks like he stepped in something at AfriCom. according to a link to us by David from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/2012\/08\/15\/apnewsbreak-general-investigated-over-spending\/89zw2L5fIIWWqLYioMeoLK\/story.html\">Boston.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gen. William \u2018\u2018Kip\u2019\u2019 Ward has been under investigation for about 17 months, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to make a final decision on the matter before the end of the month, according to several defense officials.<\/p>\n<p>The defense officials said Ward is facing numerous allegations that he spent several hundred thousand dollars allowing unauthorized people, including family members, to fly on government planes, and spent excessive amounts of money on hotel rooms, transportation and other expenses when he traveled as head of Africa Command.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That really sucks. I mean really. Like I said, I loved that guy. Best Battalion XO I ever had. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how I didn&#8217;t know this but the commander of Africa Command, Gen. William &hellip; <a title=\"AFRICOM commander facing dismissal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31536\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AFRICOM commander facing dismissal<\/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":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31536","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=31536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}