{"id":17067,"date":"2012-04-02T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T03:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17067"},"modified":"2012-04-01T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:37:08","slug":"soldier-reprimanded-over-ron-paul-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/soldier-reprimanded-over-ron-paul-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier Reprimanded over Ron Paul Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Army SPC Jesse Thorsen (previously incorrectly identified as a Corporal) has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/03\/30\/army-reserve-reprimands-soldier-who-spoke-in-uniform-at-ron-paul-rally\/\">given a Letter of Reprimand<\/a> for appearing at a Ron Paul rally in uniform and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/facebook-effect-corporal-may-face-sanction-over-ron-paul-rally\/\">giving a glowing endorsement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army determined that Jesse D. Thorsen violated <!--more-->policies that bar soldiers from participating in political events in their official capacities or while in uniform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some have noted the relatively &#8220;light&#8221; punishment is stark in contrast to the discharge board to which\u00a0Marine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/rep-hunter-defends-marine-facing-discharge-over-facebook\/\">SGT Gary Stein was subjected<\/a> on Saturday.\u00a0 The results of that board have not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army SPC Jesse Thorsen (previously incorrectly identified as a Corporal) has been given a Letter of Reprimand for appearing at a Ron Paul rally in uniform and giving a glowing endorsement. The Army determined that Jesse D. Thorsen violated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[88,2716,1476,3063,19,2714,149,2,2717,45,2715,1170],"class_list":["post-17067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-army","tag-dodd-1344-10","tag-facebook","tag-gary-stein","tag-government","tag-jesse-thorsen","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-political-activities","tag-politics","tag-ron-paul","tag-uniform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067","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=17067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}