{"id":34498,"date":"2013-03-11T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34498"},"modified":"2013-03-11T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:24:57","slug":"af-ltc-awarded-bsm-for-power-point-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34498","title":{"rendered":"AF LTC awarded BSM for Power Point Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it sounds like satire, but not that I can determine. There really is a Lieutenant Colonel Jon Trainer in the Ohio National Guard who is a chaplain. But according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local\/local-chaplain-played-vital-role-in-war\/nWhTm\/\">Dayton Daily<\/a>, he was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for his Power Point presentation. Apparently he arrived in the command in Afghanistan just when those Korans were accidentally burned;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ensuing outrage claimed more than 30 lives, including two U.S. troops and two U.S. military advisers.<\/p>\n<p>Within 48 hours, Trainer developed a PowerPoint presentation on the proper handling and disposal of Islamic religious material that was seen by every American \u2014 military and civilian alike \u2014 in Afghanistan. The presentation then was distributed to the U.S. for use in all pre-deployment training.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ya know, I don&#8217;t want to downplay the good chaplain&#8217;s role in this whole thing, but it was pretty much overblown to begin with. The only reason those people over there stop rioting is when they&#8217;re tired of being killed and maimed. How did the rioters know that there was even a PPP? <\/p>\n<p>He probably did more to earn his than I did for mine, but, ya know it&#8217;s no wonder that the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomey.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&#038;id=925\"> Department of Defense is putting the Distinguished Warfare Medal<\/a> higher in precedence than the BSM if this is what they think of it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Arby and Charles for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it sounds like satire, but not that I can determine. There really is a &hellip; <a title=\"AF LTC awarded BSM for Power Point Presentation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34498\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AF LTC awarded BSM for Power Point Presentation<\/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-34498","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\/34498","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=34498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}