{"id":6486,"date":"2010-07-22T00:20:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T06:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2010-07-21T23:57:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T05:57:48","slug":"obama-nominates-general-amos-for-marine-commandant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/obama-nominates-general-amos-for-marine-commandant\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Nominates General Amos for Marine Commandant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As widely expected, President Obama took Secretary of Defense Gates&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/gates-recommends-amos-for-marine-commandant\/\">recommendation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2010\/07\/marine_amos_commandant_072010w\/\">nominated Marine General James Amos<\/a> for the position of Commandant of the Marine Corps.\u00a0 Speculation over <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/general-amos-chosen-for-views-on-dadt\/\">why the fighter pilot was chosen over other officers<\/a>, including the General now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/07\/marine_mattis_centcom_072110w\/\">nominated to head CENTCOM<\/a>, General James Mattis, have largely died out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As widely expected, President Obama took Secretary of Defense Gates&#8217; recommendation and nominated Marine General James Amos for the position of Commandant of the Marine Corps.\u00a0 Speculation over why the fighter pilot was chosen over other officers, including the General now nominated to head CENTCOM, General James Mattis, have largely died out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[794,644,651,149,2,43,334],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-commandant-of-the-marine-corps","tag-james-amos","tag-james-mattis","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-robert-gates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","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=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}