{"id":89380,"date":"2019-07-29T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89380"},"modified":"2019-07-29T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:06:16","slug":"back-to-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89380","title":{"rendered":"Back to Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/resizer\/zg0w-j6zNEMy3Mh_3Jt0IFOX28U=\/600x0\/filters:quality(100)\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/3QFH4FH3I5AWHAB6XFRO4SJTTA.jpg\" alt=\"Marine drill instructor Charles \" width=\"371\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Marine drill instructor\u00a0Charles &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Taliano Jr. appeared in the Marine Corps&#8217; iconic 1970 recruiting poster.<\/h5>\n<p>The new Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Troy Black, is in town. And you still do not get a rose garden. Nor can you run around with your hands in your pockets.<\/p>\n<p>From the article:\u00a0 \u00a0Black told Marine Corps Times in an exclusive interview that Marines shouldn\u2019t expect significant changes to tattoo policies, grooming standards, uniform regulations or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/digital-show-dailies\/2018\/04\/11\/the-coming-infantryman-may-see-a-smarter-corps-multiple-jobs-for-grunts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">re-enlistment incentives<\/a>: What he\u2019s focused on is the foundation of the Corps and its Marines.<\/p>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The Corps exists for \u201ca singular purpose\u201d Black said. \u201cThe round hitting the target. The Corps is about warfighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">And there are certain non-negotiables that make up the identity of the Corps. He said he\u2019s focused on reinforcing those. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/07\/26\/the-new-sergeant-major-of-the-marine-corps-is-not-promising-you-a-rose-garden\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/07\/26\/the-new-sergeant-major-of-the-marine-corps-is-not-promising-you-a-rose-garden\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nothing wrong with going back to your roots. In this instance, it&#8217;s focusing on the Marines as what they were originally meant to be, a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU).\u00a0 After all, when John Paul Jones sailed the Barbary Coast (now named Libya) he sent the Marines ashore to invade Tripoli. He didn&#8217;t send in the Army.<\/p>\n<p>This should give that guy in the pink bathrobe some relief.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine drill instructor\u00a0Charles &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Taliano Jr. appeared in the Marine Corps&#8217; iconic 1970 recruiting poster. The &hellip; <a title=\"Back to Business\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89380\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to Business<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89380","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89381,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89380\/revisions\/89381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}