{"id":65512,"date":"2016-04-29T06:45:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T10:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65512"},"modified":"2016-04-29T07:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:07:24","slug":"army-retains-sfc-martland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65512","title":{"rendered":"Army Retains SFC Martland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61956\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Martland-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"Martland\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Martland-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Martland.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jonn and I have written previously about SFC Charles Martland and the attempt by the Army to separate him for &#8220;assaulting&#8221; a child-rapist in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The earlier articles can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61500\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61955\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62207\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64619\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox News, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/04\/28\/army-retains-decorated-green-beret-it-planned-to-kick-out-over-confronting-afghan-child-rapist.html\"><em>the Army yesterday changed its mind<\/em><\/a>. They have now opted to retain SFC Martland vice discharging him.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes sanity reigns &#8211; even inside that 5-sided asylum near the Open Air Brothel on the Potomac &#8211; and the good guys win one.\u00a0 IMO this is such a case.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, SFC Martland.\u00a0 Kudos to Rep. Duncan Hunter (and others) for publicly supporting him.<\/p>\n<p>And while SFC Martland never should have been considered for discharge in the first place, kudos also to the Army for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">finally<\/span> seeing the light and doing the right thing here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn and I have written previously about SFC Charles Martland and the attempt by the Army &hellip; <a title=\"Army Retains SFC Martland\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65512\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army Retains SFC Martland<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":61956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,84,5,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-army","category-military-issues","category-politics","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65512","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=65512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}