{"id":8653,"date":"2009-03-12T09:13:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2009-03-12T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T14:14:45","slug":"rip-erin-doyle-goodbye-to-our-northern-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8653","title":{"rendered":"RIP Erin Doyle, Goodbye to our Northern Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/erininset3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/erininset3-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"erininset3\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/erininset3-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/erininset3.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legionmagazine.com\/en\/index.php\/2009\/03\/the-life-and-death-of-erin-doyle\/\"><br \/>\nYour MUST READ for today is this article about Canadian Master Corporal Erin Doyle:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Doyle explained that during a pre-deployment speech, the sergeant major complained that 100 per cent of the problems in their unit were caused by 20 per cent of the soldiers. He said it in a much more profane way than that, however.<\/p>\n<p>Some guys, I thought, would hear that speech and silently tick off the troublemakers in his mind, some would smile inside knowing they may well belong to that club, some would embrace it by smiling openly and calling themselves a 20 per center, and then some, probably a very few, maybe only one, would go out and get 20 per cent patches made and have his whole platoon wear them into combat.<\/p>\n<p>That last guy\u2014that was Doyle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminds me of my SFC who was inordinately proud of the fact we led the theater in Article 15&#8217;s for a platoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudvillegazette.com\/\">H\/t Mudville Gazette.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your MUST READ for today is this article about Canadian Master Corporal Erin Doyle: Doyle explained &hellip; <a title=\"RIP Erin Doyle, Goodbye to our Northern Brother\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8653\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Erin Doyle, Goodbye to our Northern Brother<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}