And some don’t, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
Eric at Eric’s Random Musings<\/a> has put up the latest installment in his “When I Wore Green” series, a collection of his personal reflections on his days proudly wearing the Uncle-Sam-Ain’t-Released-Me-Yet (U.S. Army) uniform. In Hot!<\/a>, Eric recollects back to his arrival during the Desert Shield<\/a> build-up of 1990. Go read it.<\/p>\n Yep, the sun wasn’t up yet and it was nearly 100 degrees. When we got off the plane there was no ground transport (an air force base, not a civilian airport) and we had to grab our bags and walk across the airfield. It was so hot I thought I was still in the jetwash of the airplane, until I looked up and realized I had walked about 250 yards or so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Seriously, go read it<\/a>. And think about our current brave soldiers<\/a>, as the hotter days approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And some don’t, for obvious reasons. Eric at Eric’s Random Musings has put up the latest installment in his “When I Wore Green” series, a collection of his personal reflections on his days proudly wearing the Uncle-Sam-Ain’t-Released-Me-Yet (U.S. Army) uniform. In Hot!, Eric recollects back to his arrival during the Desert Shield build-up of 1990. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-general","category-middle-east","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}