{"id":49868,"date":"2014-06-05T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49868"},"modified":"2014-06-05T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:12:12","slug":"dunford-to-replace-amos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49868","title":{"rendered":"Dunford to replace Amos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=49869\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49869\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dunford_JF-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dunford_JF\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dunford_JF-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dunford_JF-266x333.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon announced today that General Joseph F. Dunford will replace James Amos as the Commandant of the US Marine Corps according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2014\/06\/05\/top-u-s-commander-in-afghanistan-gen-joseph-dunford-to-lead-marine-corps\/?hpid=z3\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dunford was widely seen as a front-runner for the position, and will replace Gen. James F. Amos, who has led the Marine Corps since October 2010. Dunford previously served as the Corps\u2019 No. 2 officer as assistant commandant, from October 2010 until February 2012, when he became the top U.S. general in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe is one of the most knowledgeable and talented leaders and thinkers in the military today. He has commanded and excelled at every level,\u201d Amos said in a statement. \u201cOur country and our Marine Corps will benefit greatly from his continued service.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcu.usmc.mil\/historydivision\/Pages\/Who%27s%20Who\/D-F\/Dunford_JF.aspx\">official bio<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>General Dunford\u2019s assignments in the operating forces include Platoon and Company Commander, Co K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines; Company Commander, Co A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines; and Company Commander, Co L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines. He served as the Operations, Plans, and Training Officer in 2d ANGLICO and the Regimental Executive Officer, 6th Marines. He commanded the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines and the 5th Marine Regiment. He served as the Chief of Staff, 1st Marine Division. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, unlike Amos, General Dunford can gun, bro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon announced today that General Joseph F. Dunford will replace James Amos as the Commandant &hellip; <a title=\"Dunford to replace Amos\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49868\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dunford to replace Amos<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49868","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=49868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}