{"id":81384,"date":"2018-08-25T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81384"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:12","slug":"retiring-marine-chesty-xiv-seems-unimpressed-by-fng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81384","title":{"rendered":"Retiring Marine Chesty XIV seems unimpressed by FNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty-444x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/03\/19\/meet-chesty-xv-the-new-marine-corps-mascot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beloved Marine mascot<\/a>\u00a0Chesty XIV retired at a ceremony held at the Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., on Friday after five years of service to Corps. His last parade ceremony with the storied Marine Barracks will be held Friday night for the evening parade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Chesty XIV, named after five-time Navy Cross recipient\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2017\/02\/19\/is-it-time-to-give-chesty-puller-the-medal-of-honor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis \u201cChesty\u201d Puller<\/a>, began his tour with the Corps in February 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">His replacement, Chesty XV, was announced late March. The young bulldog puppy recruit has since graduated from recruit training and will take the helm as the Corps&#8217; new mascot on Saturday, according to the Marine Barracks Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty2-500x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty2-500x320.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty2-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty2-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chesty2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about the same look I had when I attended my last Dog and Pony show.\u00a0 It looks like they might still be using the same Colonel and SgtMaj for these horror shows but I didn&#8217;t have a Corporal to follow me around and clean up my sh##.\u00a0 \u00a0Poor Chesty has no idea what awaits him in retirement.\u00a0 Wait until Mrs Chesty starts complaining about him laying around licking his ****&#8217;s all day.\u00a0 Semper Fidelis Chesty, you ain&#8217;t out of the sh## yet bro.\u00a0 Good luck to the FNG.<\/p>\n<p>The whole story is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/08\/24\/beloved-marine-mascot-chesty-xiv-retires\/\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0beloved Marine mascot\u00a0Chesty XIV retired at a ceremony held at the Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., on &hellip; <a title=\"Retiring Marine Chesty XIV seems unimpressed by FNG\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81384\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retiring Marine Chesty XIV seems unimpressed by FNG<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":81386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81384","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}