{"id":44194,"date":"2014-04-21T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44194"},"modified":"2014-04-20T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T18:25:42","slug":"heres-one-guy-you-wont-hear-complaining-about-body-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44194","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s One Guy You Won\u2019t Hear Complaining About Body Armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of soldiers complain about their body armor.\u00a0 And it is indeed uncomfortable, and rather heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Still:\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll ever hear SGT Timothy Gilboe, ME ARNG, complain about it.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140418\/NEWS\/304180051\/Sergeant-gets-plate-saved-his-life-point-blank-attack\">this article<\/a> from the <i>Army Times<\/i> to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Three additional comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Cojones muy grande<\/em>, SGT Gilboe.\u00a0 Kudos.<\/li>\n<li>Kudos to you, PEO Solider.\u00a0 Your equipment certainly worked as designed that day.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, kudos also to whoever came up with the policy of offering the soldiers affected the item that saved their life as a souvenir.\u00a0 I wish we saw more such common-sense in DoD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of soldiers complain about their body armor.\u00a0 And it is indeed uncomfortable, and rather heavy. &hellip; <a title=\"Here\u2019s One Guy You Won\u2019t Hear Complaining About Body Armor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44194\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here\u2019s One Guy You Won\u2019t Hear Complaining About Body Armor<\/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":[84,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44194","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=44194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}