{"id":32610,"date":"2012-10-29T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32610"},"modified":"2012-10-29T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:08:00","slug":"dempsey-denies-rumors-about-general-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32610","title":{"rendered":"Dempsey denies rumors about General Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/dempsey-africa-command-change-not-tied-to-benghazi-attack-1.195087\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Martin Dempsey released a statement today to lay the rumors to rest that General Carter Ham was fired from his position as the commander of Africom because of events on September 11th;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey issued a written statement Monday calling speculation about the reasons for Ham&#8217;s move &#8220;absolutely false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Dempsey said Monday that Ham&#8217;s departure is part of &#8220;routine succession planning.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dempsey&#8217;s record of truthfulness in political matters doesn&#8217;t help him in this discussion. I didn&#8217;t believe the rumors that Ham was being fired until I see that Dempsey has something to say about it. Ham&#8217;s term as commander of Africom doesn&#8217;t end for another six months. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africom.mil\/GenCarterHam.asp\">He took command in March 2011<\/a>. It just seems a little a little premature to announce a replacement with a quarter of his term still remaining. Maybe Ham blew his nose or showed the soles of his shoes in front of the wrong people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Martin Dempsey released a statement &hellip; <a title=\"Dempsey denies rumors about General Ham\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32610\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dempsey denies rumors about General Ham<\/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-32610","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\/32610","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=32610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}