{"id":7648,"date":"2009-02-06T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T01:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2011-04-27T08:18:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T12:18:33","slug":"heh-my-first-el-tee-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7648","title":{"rendered":"Heh. My first El Tee in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, OK I&#8217;m a few days behind the news, but I just thought I&#8217;d mention that Karl <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/30\/asia\/afghan.1-419218.php\">Eikenberry, Obama&#8217;s ambassador to Afghanistan<\/a>, was my very first platoon leader when I was E-fricken-two in Bravo Company First of the Seventy Fifth Infantry back in nineteen seventy-five when they were still on Fort Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>I sure hope he&#8217;s less of a (ringknocker) dick now than he was then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hires_061121-d-2987s-059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7649 aligncenter\" title=\"Pentagon briefing by LtG Karl Eikenberry, and Afghan Min. of Def\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hires_061121-d-2987s-059-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I don&#8217;t fault him for working for the Obama Administration. If the Obama Adminstration asked me to be an ambassador for, say, oh, I don&#8217;t know&#8230;Panama for instance (hint, hint), I&#8217;d accept it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">LT General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nato.int\/cv\/dmilcom\/eikenberry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eikenberry has had a long and distinguished career<\/a>, and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll do a great job, but to me he&#8217;ll always be that dickhead El Tee back 34 years ago. So, I guess there won&#8217;t be any job offers to work on the diplomatic staff in Kabul coming my way anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, OK I&#8217;m a few days behind the news, but I just thought I&#8217;d mention that &hellip; <a title=\"Heh. My first El Tee in the news\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7648\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heh. My first El Tee in the news<\/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":[46,9,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648","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=7648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}