{"id":39593,"date":"2014-02-01T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39593"},"modified":"2014-02-01T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:18:31","slug":"canadian-general-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39593","title":{"rendered":"Canadian general gone wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy sends us a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/39-ex-canadian-top-general-afghanistan-detained-39-154613147.html\">link to an article<\/a> that is kind of refreshing, in regards to general officers. It seems that there&#8217;s a Canadian former general, Daniel Menard, being held in Afghanistan for weapons smuggling. He resigned from his position in the Army because of a affair he had with a corporal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The daily Globe and Mail earlier cited Kabul police chief General Zaher Zaher saying Menard was being held for &#8220;gun smuggling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Canadian government officials told AFP that &#8220;consular services are being provided to a Canadian citizen who has been detained in Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However it would not confirm the person&#8217;s identity nor the circumstances surrounding his detention.<\/p>\n<p>Menard was relieved of his command of Canadian troops responsible for Kandahar region in May 2010 due to the affair with the female master corporal.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Forces forbid intimate relationships during deployments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of ice to know that US generals aren&#8217;t the only ones misbehaving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy sends us a link to an article that is kind of refreshing, in regards to &hellip; <a title=\"Canadian general gone wild\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39593\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian general gone wild<\/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-39593","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\/39593","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=39593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}