{"id":78718,"date":"2018-04-05T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78718"},"modified":"2018-04-05T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:39:14","slug":"navy-capt-loften-thornton-chaplain-canned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78718","title":{"rendered":"Navy Capt. Loften Thornton; chaplain canned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78719\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Navy-Capt.-Loften-Thornton-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Navy-Capt.-Loften-Thornton-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Navy-Capt.-Loften-Thornton-443x333.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Navy-Capt.-Loften-Thornton-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Navy-Capt.-Loften-Thornton.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Navy Captain Loften Thornton, a chaplain assigned to Headquarters and Service Battalion at Marine Corps Forces Pacific, was fired when a video of him engaged in a sexual tryst in a New Orleans club triggered an investigation into the chaplain&#8217;s conduct. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/04\/04\/navy-chaplain-fired-after-was-caught-having-sex-at-new-orleans-bar-report-says.html\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>USA Today, citing two defense officials, reported that authorities were examining video that showed Thornton having sex with the woman at the Crown &#038; Anchor English Pub in the Algiers Point neighborhood of New Orleans. The bar is located across the Mississippi River from the city\u2019s French Quarter, and near the Marine Forces Reserve in Algiers, where Thornton was stationed.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the bar told USA Today that he was cooperating with authorities, but would not comment further.<\/p>\n<p>The paper reported that Thornton had been a Navy chaplain since 1992.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/navy-chaplain-fired-after-he%E2%80%99s-caught-on-video-having-sex-at-a-new-orleans-bar\/ar-AAvtppC?li=BBnbfcL&#038;ffid=gz\">MSN<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Marines fired Navy Capt. Loften Thornton on March 20 for \u201closs of trust and confidence,\u201d said Marine Lt. Col. Ted Wong, a spokesman for Marine Reserve. Thornton had been chaplain for Marine Forces Reserve based in New Orleans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy Captain Loften Thornton, a chaplain assigned to Headquarters and Service Battalion at Marine Corps Forces &hellip; <a title=\"Navy Capt. Loften Thornton; chaplain canned\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78718\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy Capt. Loften Thornton; chaplain canned<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78718","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=78718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}