{"id":59193,"date":"2015-04-10T11:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59193"},"modified":"2015-04-10T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T15:42:46","slug":"major-general-james-post-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59193","title":{"rendered":"Major General James Post fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55373\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"A10 Thunderbolt\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt-500x242.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/air-force\/238422-general-removed-for-warning-airmen-not-to-speak-to-congress-about#.VSfbN9L2eB8.facebook\">The Hill<\/a> reports that Major General James Post, the vice-commander of Air Combat Command was relieved from his position for warning Airmen at a convention to refrain from speaking to Congress or the media if they didn&#8217;t support the official policy of the Air Force to dump the A-10 Thunderbolt (the Warthog) close ground support aircraft. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Post&#8217;s \u201cchoice of words had the effect of attempting to prevent some members from lawfully communicating with Congress,\u201d which is a violation of the U.S. Code and [Department of Defense] Directives, whether that was his intention or not,\u201d said Air Combat Command (ACC).<\/p>\n<p>His remarks had a &#8220;chilling effect on some of the attendees and caused them to feel constrained from communicating with members of Congress,&#8221; the command said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the A-10 chalks up another casualty and survives yet another fight. Post made the Air Force look impotent because they have no real rationale to remove the indispensable bird from it&#8217;s inventory and the discussion about their plans doesn&#8217;t stand up to scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill reports that Major General James Post, the vice-commander of Air Combat Command was relieved &hellip; <a title=\"Major General James Post fired\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59193\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major General James Post fired<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59193","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=59193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}