{"id":30538,"date":"2014-12-12T00:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=30538"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:52:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:52:52","slug":"former-ranger-military-now-a-social-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/former-ranger-military-now-a-social-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ranger: Military now a &#8220;Social Experiment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Holton, a former Army Ranger and author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/reviews.htm#elite\">A More Elite Soldier<\/a><\/em>, in a recent interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The military is being turned into this great social experiment and they&#8217;re not being allowed to go out and accomplish their mission &#8211; which is to defeat the enemy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now they&#8217;re being told, &#8216;You have to defeat the enemy, but you have to do it without actually offending them,'&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2014\/December\/Mission-Derailed-Military-Now-Just-a-Social-Experiment\/\">CBN News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Holton, a former Army Ranger and author of A More Elite Soldier, in a recent interview: &#8220;The military is being turned into this great social experiment and they&#8217;re not being allowed to go out and accomplish their mission &#8211; which is to defeat the enemy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now they&#8217;re being told, &#8216;You have to defeat the enemy, but you [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,288,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-30538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-chuck-holton","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30538","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=30538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}