{"id":35249,"date":"2013-04-23T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35249"},"modified":"2013-04-24T09:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:28:24","slug":"a-modest-proposal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35249","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, the proposed Distinguished Warfare Medal (DWM) has been canned by the SECDEF.\u00a0 Instead, the SECDEF has decided that existing decorations will instead be used, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=119778\">augmented by a yet-to-be determined &#8220;distinguishing device&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to suggest an appropriate device.\u00a0 I believe the letter \u201cR\u201d is appropriate as a distinguishing device to recognize such service as was to be recognized by the now-defunct DWM.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my rationale:  like the now-defunct DWM, the new device will recognize the contributions of the operators of Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs) and cyber operators to modern warfare.\u00a0 Each of these specialties allows military force to be directed and executed remotely &#8211; from hundreds or even thousands of miles away.\u00a0 One no longer needs to risk life and limb personally in a combat zone in order to contribute to the fight.\u00a0 This merits appropriate recognition.<\/p>\n<p>These individuals are clearly directing the Remote Execution of Military Force. The letter \u201cR\u201d is an appropriate recognition of excellence in the application of this new capability.<\/p>\n<p>I also propose that the new device be called the \u201cRemote Execution of Military Force Device\u201d.\u00a0 Since that\u2019s a bit of a mouthful, we\u2019ll refer to it by its acronym, of course:<br \/>\n<center>the \u201cREMF device\u201d<\/center><br \/>\nYeah, IMO that sounds about right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, the proposed Distinguished Warfare Medal (DWM) has been canned by the SECDEF.\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"A Modest Proposal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35249\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Modest Proposal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35249","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}