{"id":70614,"date":"2017-03-01T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70614"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:28:10","slug":"special-warfare-unit-members-reprimanded-for-trump-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70614","title":{"rendered":"Special warfare unit members reprimanded for Trump flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=70615\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-flag-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-flag-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-flag-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump-flag.jpg 694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mick sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pilotonline.com\/news\/military\/local\/navy-investigating-use-of-trump-campaign-flag-by-virginia-beach\/article_7d7f9023-3a51-5ded-ae7b-c24b49864e19.html\">Virginian-Pilot<\/a> which reports that members of a Virginia Beach-based special warfare unit was reprimanded for flying a Trump campaign flag from a vehicle in a military convoy that was going through Kentucky in January.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that one of the videos was shot by a Shepherdsville, Ky., man while he was driving on Interstate 65 on his way to pick up feed for his goat farm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just thought it was just a bunch of military vehicles,\u201d Steve Thompson told the newspaper Monday. \u201cI was surprised because I figured you wouldn\u2019t be able to fly anything on a Humvee other than an American flag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While certain other flags may be flown, political flags are not permitted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Military convoy spotted near Louisville flying Donald Trump flag belonged to SEAL unit, U.S. Navy spokesperson says. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JKMCpcDoBA\">https:\/\/t.co\/JKMCpcDoBA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yF0ktSiEgV\">pic.twitter.com\/yF0ktSiEgV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/826969301584338948\">February 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us a link to the Virginian-Pilot which reports that members of a Virginia Beach-based &hellip; <a title=\"Special warfare unit members reprimanded for Trump flag\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70614\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special warfare unit members reprimanded for Trump flag<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70614","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=70614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}