{"id":42057,"date":"2014-04-03T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=42057"},"modified":"2014-04-03T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:41:44","slug":"army-ivan-lopez-saw-no-combat-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42057","title":{"rendered":"Army: Ivan Lopez &#8220;saw no combat in Iraq&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends us a link from a few minutes ago to an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/army-says-alleged-shooter-saw-no-combat-iraq-143001941--politics.html;_ylt=AwrBJSCbcT1TGCgAyqXQtDMD\">Associated Press<\/a> in which Army leadership admits that the latest Fort Hood shooter, Ivan Lopez, &#8220;saw no combat in Iraq&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Army Secretary John McHugh testified Thursday that the soldier appeared to have no connections to extremist groups.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier is identified by others as Ivan Lopez. He enlisted in the Army in June 2008 as an infantryman and later switched his specialty to truck driver, the job he had in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>McHugh says the soldier was examined by a psychiatrist last month and was found to show no violent or suicidal tendencies. He says the soldier had been prescribed Ambien to deal with a sleeping problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve been saying all along, PTS has become an excuse for bad behavior, but on closer examination, something the media is largely unequipped to accept, that&#8217;s all it is &#8211; an excuse. An excuse largely accepted by the social engineers and our intellectual betters who have all of the answers and none of the experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends us a link from a few minutes ago to an article in the Associated &hellip; <a title=\"Army: Ivan Lopez &#8220;saw no combat in Iraq&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42057\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army: Ivan Lopez &#8220;saw no combat in Iraq&#8221;<\/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-42057","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\/42057","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=42057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}