{"id":15221,"date":"2012-01-06T02:13:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T05:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15221"},"modified":"2012-01-06T02:13:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T05:13:55","slug":"dod-corporal-potentially-violated-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/dod-corporal-potentially-violated-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"DoD: Corporal &#8220;Potentially&#8221; Violated Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense put out an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=66689\">unusually rapid (and blunt) assessment<\/a> of US Army Corporal Jesse Thorsen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/facebook-effect-corporal-may-face-sanction-over-ron-paul-rally\/\">stint at the Ron Paul rally<\/a> a few days ago.\u00a0 In an article that covered the general restrictions of military service and political activities, the DoD said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A combat engineer assigned to the 416th Theater Engineer Company potentially violated these rules Jan. 3 when he stepped onto a stage at Ron Paul\u2019s headquarters in Ankeny, Iowa, during the Iowa Caucus to offer a personal endorsement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, it also specifically noted Thorsen was not on active duty at the time, contrary to the CNN reports at the time:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although he was wearing his uniform, the soldier was not in an active status at the time, Army Maj. Angela Wallace, an Army Reserve spokeswoman, confirmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While seemingly academic, that status will likely play into the military&#8217;s response to his conduct, though the response is yet to be decided:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His chain of command is aware of the issue and is considering appropriate disciplinary action to take, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense put out an unusually rapid (and blunt) assessment of US Army Corporal Jesse Thorsen&#8217;s stint at the Ron Paul rally a few days ago.\u00a0 In an article that covered the general restrictions of military service and political activities, the DoD said A combat engineer assigned to the 416th Theater Engineer Company potentially violated these rules Jan. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2719,2718,88,2716,19,2714,2,2717,45,2715,1170],"class_list":["post-15221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-active-duty","tag-angela-wallace","tag-army","tag-dodd-1344-10","tag-government","tag-jesse-thorsen","tag-military","tag-political-activities","tag-politics","tag-ron-paul","tag-uniform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}