{"id":76836,"date":"2017-12-31T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76836"},"modified":"2017-12-31T06:28:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T11:28:04","slug":"secnav-was-armed-in-afghanistan-cnn-gasps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76836","title":{"rendered":"SecNav was armed in Afghanistan; CNN gasps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76837\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76837\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecNav-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecNav-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecNav-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecNav-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SecNav.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer, made a trip to Afghanistan and he was photographed in Camp Shorab talking to some folks by the Marine Corps Times. He was strapped with a handgun, you know, in a war zone. Of course, CNN reporter, Barbara Starr couldn&#8217;t believe her jaundiced eyes;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can someone explain why the civiilan head of the Navy is wearing a sidearm? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chinfo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chinfo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SECNAV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SECNAV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8YyrgkZSUf\">https:\/\/t.co\/8YyrgkZSUf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barbarastarrcnn\/status\/946466091877961728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Good thing that he wasn&#8217;t eating two scoops of ice cream at the time.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/secnav-carrying-pistol-afghanistan-richard-v-spencer-2017-12\">Business Insider<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Spencer was reportedly offered the pistol and ammunition from Marine commanders, according to a Navy spokesman cited in a San Diego Tribune report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was offered the weapon to carry while he was traveling around [Afghanistan] and he accepted that offer,&#8221; the spokesman told The Tribune. &#8220;It was not something that he specifically requested and it was offered to everybody on the travel team.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I was in Afghanistan, where most of our recent casualties resulted from &#8220;insider attacks&#8221;, I&#8217;d have more than one firearm visible. Grow up, CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer, made a trip to Afghanistan and he was photographed &hellip; <a title=\"SecNav was armed in Afghanistan; CNN gasps\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76836\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SecNav was armed in Afghanistan; CNN gasps<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76836","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\/76836","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=76836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}