{"id":69671,"date":"2017-01-05T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T13:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69671"},"modified":"2017-01-05T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T13:02:18","slug":"obamas-department-of-defense-medal-for-distinguished-public-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69671","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69674\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Obama-Distinguished-Public-Service-Medal-Getty-640x480-444x333.jpg\" alt=\"Obama-Distinguished-Public-Service-Medal-Getty-640x480\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Obama-Distinguished-Public-Service-Medal-Getty-640x480-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Obama-Distinguished-Public-Service-Medal-Getty-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Obama-Distinguished-Public-Service-Medal-Getty-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Obama-Distinguished-Public-Service-Medal-Getty-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/01\/04\/president-obama-awards-himself-distinguished-public-service-medal\/\">Breitbart<\/a>, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter awarded the president the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Secretary Carter awarded his boss with the medal on January 4 during the Armed Forces Full Honor Farewell Review for the President held at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Carter insisted that the medal was a token of appreciation for Obama\u2019s service as commander in chief, the Associated Press reported.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before anyone goes off into hyper-space ranting about this award, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service\">Wiki<\/a>, Obama&#8217;s predecessors have also been awarded the medal.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69672\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1280px-William_S__Cohen_presents_President_Clinton_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"1280px-William_S__Cohen_presents_President_Clinton_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1280px-William_S__Cohen_presents_President_Clinton_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1280px-William_S__Cohen_presents_President_Clinton_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1280px-William_S__Cohen_presents_President_Clinton_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69673\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/US_Navy_090106-F-6655M-124_Secretary_of_Defense_Robert_M__Gates_awards_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service_to_President_George_W__Bush-441x333.jpg\" alt=\"US_Navy_090106-F-6655M-124_Secretary_of_Defense_Robert_M__Gates_awards_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service_to_President_George_W__Bush\" width=\"441\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/US_Navy_090106-F-6655M-124_Secretary_of_Defense_Robert_M__Gates_awards_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service_to_President_George_W__Bush-441x333.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/US_Navy_090106-F-6655M-124_Secretary_of_Defense_Robert_M__Gates_awards_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service_to_President_George_W__Bush-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/US_Navy_090106-F-6655M-124_Secretary_of_Defense_Robert_M__Gates_awards_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service_to_President_George_W__Bush-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/US_Navy_090106-F-6655M-124_Secretary_of_Defense_Robert_M__Gates_awards_the_Department_of_Defense_Medal_for_Distinguished_Public_Service_to_President_George_W__Bush.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ashton Carter has been awarded the medal. So, I guess it&#8217;s really no big deal &#8211; like the Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Breitbart, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter awarded the president the Department of Defense Medal &hellip; <a title=\"Obama&#8217;s Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69671\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama&#8217;s Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69671","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=69671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}