{"id":48955,"date":"2014-05-28T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48955"},"modified":"2014-05-28T07:33:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T11:33:56","slug":"troops-worry-about-hashtag-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48955","title":{"rendered":"Troops worry about hashtag war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=48956\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/navyseals_s640x411-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"navyseals_s640x411\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/navyseals_s640x411-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/navyseals_s640x411-500x321.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/navyseals_s640x411.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how much stock I put in this story, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/missing-nigeria-schoolgirls\/nigeria-captives-could-get-u-s-troops-tweeted-combat-n115351\">NBC<\/a> reports that &#8220;some commanders&#8221; of special forces troops are concerned that the <em>#bringbackourgirls<\/em> hashtag thing is going to get them bogged down in Nigeria;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to two well-placed defense department sources, senior Special Operations commanders \u2014 those in charge of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force and the Ranger Regiment \u2014 have told their men to be ready, assuming that eventually \u201cthe hashtag will bring us out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re being tweeted into combat,\u201d said a military official who spoke to NBC News but asked not to be identified. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like I said, I don&#8217;t think this is a real worry. As little regard as I have for the current administration, I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re as susceptible to the calls from the slacktivists as the skinnyjeans crowd would like to think. I&#8217;m pretty sure that they&#8217;re well aware of how the historians would judge them&#8230;after all, that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re most worried about &#8211; their legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Pinto Nag for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how much stock I put in this story, but NBC reports that &#8220;some &hellip; <a title=\"Troops worry about hashtag war\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48955\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troops worry about hashtag war<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48955","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=48955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}