{"id":34239,"date":"2013-02-20T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34239"},"modified":"2013-02-20T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:40:10","slug":"the-duffel-blog-female-infantry-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34239","title":{"rendered":"The Duffel Blog: Female infantry commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First let me say that this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2013\/02\/wargame-determines-infantry-battalions-commanded-by-female-officers-75-more-likely-to-stop-for-directions-arrive-fashionably-late\/\">The Duffel Blog<\/a> which is satire, a fact not recognized by many (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/02\/mcconnell-duffel-blog\/?fb_action_ids=10152569147225317&#038;fb_action_types=og.likes&#038;fb_source=aggregation&#038;fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582\">including US Sentors<\/a>). But satirist Drew looks at a female commander in the infantry;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O\u2019Neil was chosen for combat command after distinguishing herself by replacing PT with Zumba classes, outfitting her Marines with different uniforms so no one could argue who wore theirs better, and replacing MRE\u2019s with salads and pints of yogurt.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neil organized a long distance recon, during which she made her Executive Officer, Major Brad Gramble, carry her rucksack and open jars. Unconfirmed sources say she also refused to wear camouflage face paint, claiming it didn\u2019t match her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe also said her feet were hurting,\u201d said Gramble, \u201cso she commandeered a Humvee but ended up driving it into a ditch.\u201d She screamed in frustration, prompting her Marines to mutter, \u201cmust be that time of the month.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But you should read the whole thing. Remembering that it&#8217;s satire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First let me say that this is The Duffel Blog which is satire, a fact not &hellip; <a title=\"The Duffel Blog: Female infantry commander\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34239\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Duffel Blog: Female infantry commander<\/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":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239","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=34239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}