{"id":55815,"date":"2014-10-14T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T22:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55815"},"modified":"2014-10-14T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T22:41:10","slug":"commandant-amos-padded-his-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55815","title":{"rendered":"Commandant Amos padded his records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55816\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JamesAmos-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"JamesAmos\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JamesAmos-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JamesAmos-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JamesAmos.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>icume sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/oct\/14\/semper-lie-marine-corps-commandant-james-amos-padd\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> which reports that Marine Corps Commandant James Amos lied to Congress in his written resume to the Senate Arms Committee for his confirmation hearing. Apparently, he didn&#8217;t attend the Marine&#8217;s Officer Training School in 1972 like he told the committee. Instead, he took The Basic School by correspondence course five years later;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gen. Amos\u2018 resume containing the false statement was provided to the Senate in 2010 as part of the confirmation process to four-star rank and commandant, the Corps\u2018 top officer.<\/p>\n<p>The TBS is a rigorous, and required, rite of passage for young officers who for six months crawl and march in the mud, heat and cold of Quantico, Virginia. In the end, they are deemed indoctrinated into the Corps\u2018 tradition-filled culture and basic war-fighting techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Under \u201cEducation\/qualifications\u201d Gen. Amos\u2018 resume lists \u201cThe Basic School 1972.\u201d Gen. Amos signed, and thus attested to the Senate, that the resume was \u201ccurrent, accurate and complete.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>L. Lee Thweatt has been investigating Amos&#8217; records and asking questions for months and for some reason no one felt like answering his questions until days before Amos&#8217; retirement. By the way, the correspondence course thing is just speculation at this point &#8211; the Marine Corps hasn&#8217;t provided documentation that Amos took the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>icume sends us a link from The Washington Times which reports that Marine Corps Commandant James &hellip; <a title=\"Commandant Amos padded his records\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55815\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commandant Amos padded his records<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55815","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\/55815","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=55815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}