{"id":70524,"date":"2017-02-24T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T19:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70524"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T20:05:25","slug":"marines-the-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70524","title":{"rendered":"Marines. The Few\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all seen the Marine at attention at Marine One when the President descends from the helo, or outside the West Wing as a ceremonial guard, opening doors for those entering and leaving the White House. These guys take looking sharp to a whole new level, and the job requires the discipline and professionalism of a Spartan warrior. But who are these guys? I found this pretty interesting- there are only four Marines assigned to White House duty. Four out of the entire Corps. The selection process must be brutal, and I imagine a very good bullet on the old eval. Anyway, check out the video, I think you\u2019ll find it as interesting as I did. The Christmas tree alone is worth the price of admission.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vjMNjGsU86Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For me, a Navy flight suit and ball cap were sufficient; my job was in the air.\u00a0As sister services we may have the occasional difference of opinion, sometimes rather loudly. But when it comes down to the wire, I&#8217;m glad you guys are on our side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all seen the Marine at attention at Marine One when the President descends from the &hellip; <a title=\"Marines. The Few\u2026\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70524\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines. The Few\u2026<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70524","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}