{"id":3416,"date":"2006-11-08T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:09:46","slug":"chuck-norris-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/chuck-norris-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Norris In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnf-iraq.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=7062&#038;Itemid=109\" target=\"_new\">this<\/a> made some troops&#8217; days:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Corporals John W. Wright and Lazaro A. Castillo, intelligence specialists with Headquarters Company, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), and Cpl. Romel M. Estremadura, a member of the 1st MLG Personal Security Detachment, earned these bragging rights and their present rank during a special promotion ceremony here Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Robert Magnus, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, along with action stars Marshall Teague and <b>Chuck Norris<\/b>, joined a military formation of 20 service members to promote the three Marines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How cool would that be?  I mean, I&#8217;m just a QA guy, and I guess the equivalent would be for Loki to tell me, &#8220;Nice job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/204066.php\" target=\"_new\">Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet this made some troops&#8217; days: Corporals John W. Wright and Lazaro A. Castillo, intelligence specialists with Headquarters Company, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), and Cpl. Romel M. Estremadura, a member of the 1st MLG Personal Security Detachment, earned these bragging rights and their present rank during a special promotion ceremony here Nov. 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18466,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/18466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}