{"id":67602,"date":"2016-08-23T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67602"},"modified":"2016-08-23T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:01:11","slug":"marsoc-insignia-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67602","title":{"rendered":"MARSOC Insignia Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67603\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67603\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/marsoc-insignia-pin-600x400-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"marsoc-insignia-pin-600x400\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/marsoc-insignia-pin-600x400-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/marsoc-insignia-pin-600x400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/marsoc-insignia-pin-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2016\/08\/23\/marine-special-operators-get-their-own-insignia-pin.html\">Military.com<\/a> reports that the US Marines Special Operations Command has created a badge for their &#8220;Raiders&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The insignia, the first Marine Corps-only uniform device to be authorized, features an eagle, wings outspread, clutching an upward-pointing stiletto dagger featuring the Southern Cross constellation that appears on other MARSOC and Raider insignia. Above the eagle&#8217;s head flies a banner carrying the MARSOC motto: &#8220;Spiritus Invictus,&#8221; or unconquerable spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The insignia badge will be 2 inches by 2.75 inches and will be awarded to critical skills operators and special operations officers upon completion of MARSOC&#8217;s grueling nine-month individual training course. By the time MARSOC Raiders reach the end of ITC, they have completed at least 268 days of training, according to Marine Corps officials.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes just a month after Maj. Gen. Carl E. Mundy III took command of MARSOC, succeeding previous commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Osterman. In a statement, Mundy said the creation of the badge granted Raiders a visual certification of the training they had completed for their role in MARSOC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Andy11M for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military.com reports that the US Marines Special Operations Command has created a badge for their &#8220;Raiders&#8221;; &hellip; <a title=\"MARSOC Insignia Announced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67602\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MARSOC Insignia Announced<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67602","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\/67602","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=67602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}