{"id":926,"date":"2003-11-29T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2003-11-29T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/stabbed-in-the-back\/"},"modified":"2003-11-29T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2003-11-29T21:05:47","slug":"stabbed-in-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/stabbed-in-the-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Stabbed in the back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"CNN.com - Reservist questions quick return to combat, faces charges - Nov. 28, 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/Northeast\/11\/28\/reservist.reprimanded.ap\/\">CNN.com &#8211; Reservist questions quick return to combat, faces charges &#8211; Nov. 28, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capt. Steve McAlpin, a 25-year Army reservist, spent most of last year deployed in Afghanistan and just returned home in January. Now his unit is about to ship out again, and <b>he&#8217;s facing insubordination charges for criticizing the quick turnaround<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>McAlpin <b>questioned the legality of a waiver<\/b> that his battalion was asked to sign that would put his unit back in a combat zone after just 11 months at home. Under federal law, he pointed out, troops are allowed a 12-month &#8221;stabilization period.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We signed up to fight our nation&#8217;s enemies and we are fully prepared to do that. But <b>if they&#8217;re going to usurp the laws of this country<\/b> at the expense of our most precious asset, our soldiers, then I will not stand for that, not for a minute.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>McAlpin served in Bosnia in 1996. Last year, [he was] stationed &#8230; in Afghanistan&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking at something I love more than just about anything _ my service to the Army and my fellow soldiers &#8212; and <b>they&#8217;re trying to stab me in the back<\/b>,&#8221; McAlpin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.com &#8211; Reservist questions quick return to combat, faces charges &#8211; Nov. 28, 2003 Capt. Steve McAlpin, a 25-year Army reservist, spent most of last year deployed in Afghanistan and just returned home in January. Now his unit is about to ship out again, and he&#8217;s facing insubordination charges for criticizing the quick turnaround. McAlpin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/stabbed-in-the-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stabbed in the back<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}