{"id":66597,"date":"2016-06-29T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66597"},"modified":"2016-06-29T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T15:41:04","slug":"fashion-issues-for-rota-marines-responding-to-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66597","title":{"rendered":"Fashion issues for Rota Marines responding to Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol, writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/06\/28\/marines-responding-benghazi-were-held-up-debate-weapons-and-uniforms-commander-says\/86478466\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Military%20EBB%206-29-16&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">Marine Corps Times<\/a> about the issues that consumed the Marines responding to the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the Benghazi consulate while those Marines sat on the runway 2000 miles away from their objective. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We were told multiple times to change what we were wearing, to change from cammies into civilian attire, civilian attire into cammies, cammies into civilian attire,&#8221; the platoon commander, who was not identified, told the committee. &#8220;There was also some talk of whether or not we could carry our personal weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was basically holding hard and fast to the point where we were carrying our personal weapons. Like, we\u2019ve got a very violent thing going on the ground where we\u2019re going, so we\u2019re going to be carrying something that can protect ourselves. But as far as what the Marines were wearing, that continually changed, and we had to make those changes inside of the aircraft.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, those types of issues, whether to wear uniforms, whether or not to be armed, those are the kinds of nutrolls that come from working with the State Department, typically.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;After the State Department request at the 7:30 p.m. White House meeting, the Defense Department began working the issue,&#8221; the report says. &#8220;Documents from the Defense Department show, and the FAST Platoon Commander testified it was well into the next afternoon on September 12th before the final decision was made. He testified further the Marines changed in and out of uniform and civilian clothes several times because the orders kept changing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that if it happened now, they&#8217;d be deciding whether or not sleeves will be rolled up or down and insuring that a proportionate number of females were included in the force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol, writes in the Marine Corps Times about the issues that consumed the &hellip; <a title=\"Fashion issues for Rota Marines responding to Benghazi\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66597\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fashion issues for Rota Marines responding to Benghazi<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66597","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=66597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}