{"id":66189,"date":"2016-06-07T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66189"},"modified":"2016-06-07T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:43:52","slug":"lapthe-c-flora-promoted-to-brigadier-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66189","title":{"rendered":"Lapthe C. Flora promoted to Brigadier General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66190\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66190\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lapthe-C.-Flora-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Lapthe C. Flora\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-66190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lapthe-C.-Flora-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lapthe-C.-Flora-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lapthe-C.-Flora-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo <a href=\"http:\/\/vaguard.dodlive.mil\/2016\/06\/06\/8898\/\">sends us the news<\/a> that Lapthe C. Flora, a Vietnamese boat person in the 70s, has been promoted to Brigadier General in the Virginia National Guard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Following the Communist capture of Saigon in 1975, Flora and his brothers fled the city to avoid being drafted in to the North Vietnamese military. He spent more than three years in the jungle, then fled by boat to Indonesia where he spent a year living in three separate refugee camps.<\/p>\n<p>When he arrived in the U.S., he quickly learned English and finished his high school education in only three years. After high school Flora attended the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington where he earned a bachelor\u2019s degree and commission in the U. S. Army Reserve in 1987. He later transferred to the Virginia Army National Guard where he served in every staff position within 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, including commander of the battalion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s probably the first draft-dodger to be promoted to General, too. He just dodged the right draft.<\/p>\n<p>You should read his speech at the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us the news that Lapthe C. Flora, a Vietnamese boat person in the 70s, &hellip; <a title=\"Lapthe C. Flora promoted to Brigadier General\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66189\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lapthe C. Flora promoted to Brigadier General<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66189","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=66189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}