{"id":6873,"date":"2009-01-07T07:18:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2009-01-07T07:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T12:18:33","slug":"some-troops-in-iraq-to-get-beer-for-superbowl-jonn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6873","title":{"rendered":"Some troops in Iraq to get beer for Superbowl [Jonn]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=59830\">Stars and Stripes<\/a> reports that members of Multi-National Division &#8211; Baghdad will get two beers in their dining facility, but the rest of the force won&#8217;t;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Units that fall under Multi-National Division\u2013Baghdad will likely be the only troops enjoying a beer in Iraq during this year\u2019s Super Bowl. Other divisions do not plan to allow their servicemembers to partake, officials have said in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>MND\u2013B has received permission to allow servicemembers to enjoy two beers in military dining facilities during the NFL title game, to be played Feb. 1 in Tampa, Fla. The Baghdad festivities will be a temporary exception to General Order No. 1, which bans the consumption of alcohol in Iraq, among other things. <\/p>\n<p>But other divisions and commands say they are not following suit. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, maybe one beer for the combat forces who deserve the darn thing? It&#8217;s one stupid beer, for Pete&#8217;s sake. It&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re asking for a bottle of Jack Daniels a piece. You can imagine what my working title for this post was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars and Stripes reports that members of Multi-National Division &#8211; Baghdad will get two beers &hellip; <a title=\"Some troops in Iraq to get beer for Superbowl [Jonn]\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6873\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some troops in Iraq to get beer for Superbowl [Jonn]<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","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=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}