{"id":77994,"date":"2018-03-01T10:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77994"},"modified":"2018-03-01T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:48:01","slug":"ltg-mark-hertling-on-the-ar-style-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77994","title":{"rendered":"LTG Mark Hertling on the AR-style rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77995\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/US_Army_53507_IMT_established_to_focus_on_new_recruits_officers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77995\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>CNN decided to take retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling to the range. LTG Hertling was an armor officer, also trained in Air Defense Artillery. He has six Bronze Star Medals (all for merit, not a one for valor). He was awarded a Purple Heart in Desert Storm according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Hertling\">Wiki<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t know how that happens to a major who is the Squadron S-3 in a Cavalry unit, but there it is. <\/p>\n<p>Somehow he earned a Combat Action Badge while he was the Commanding General of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq. If your commanding general is involved in a combat action, something has gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell by his shooting stance that he&#8217;s not real familiar with firing an AR style rifle. He&#8217;s pretty dramatic at making the recoil look stronger than it really is. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at a loss to explain what &#8220;full semi-automatic&#8221; means.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IYjjWPvL9j0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t own AR-style rifles to look &#8220;cool&#8221; or &#8220;look like a soldier&#8221;, General. I was cool before I owned one and I was a soldier while you were still a cadet.<\/p>\n<p>He says some ignorant bullshit about people who want should be able to buy them, but the rifle should be kept out of the &#8220;wrong hands&#8221;. I guess he wants to be on the council that determines &#8220;wrong hands&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN decided to take retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling to the range. LTG Hertling was an &hellip; <a title=\"LTG Mark Hertling on the AR-style rifle\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77994\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LTG Mark Hertling on the AR-style rifle<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77994","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=77994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}