{"id":7881,"date":"2010-11-03T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T05:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2010-11-03T00:10:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T05:10:39","slug":"general-mixon-revisits-dadt-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/general-mixon-revisits-dadt-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"General Mixon Revisits DADT Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em>, LtGen Benjamin Mixon has &#8220;regrets&#8221; over the controversy caused by <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/general-encourages-troops-to-express-views-on-dadt\/\">his remarks earlier this year<\/a>\u00a0on the policy known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell.&#8221;\u00a0 At the time, he wrote a letter to <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em> encouraging members of the military who opposed the repeal of DADT to &#8220;speak up.&#8221;\u00a0 Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, subsequently <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/chairman-officers-who-support-dadt-can-resign\/\">implied Mixon should resign<\/a> if he disagreed with the military&#8217;s policy direction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I do regret having put Army senior leadership on the spot with my response in the Stars and Stripes,&#8221; said Lt. Gen. Benjamin Mixon&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>General Mixon reportedly said he planned to work &#8220;within the system&#8221; on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Stars and Stripes, LtGen Benjamin Mixon has &#8220;regrets&#8221; over the controversy caused by his remarks earlier this year\u00a0on the policy known as &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell.&#8221;\u00a0 At the time, he wrote a letter to Stars and Stripes encouraging members of the military who opposed the repeal of DADT to &#8220;speak up.&#8221;\u00a0 Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the [&#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":[264,219,280,335],"class_list":["post-7881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-benjamin-mixon","tag-dadt","tag-mike-mullen","tag-stars-and-stripes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881","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=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}