{"id":5234,"date":"2009-08-11T12:11:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T17:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2009-08-11T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T16:29:21","slug":"semper-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5234","title":{"rendered":"The USMC&#8217;s Loss Is Engineering&#8217;s Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Sergeant Tom &#8211; aka Flash&#8217;s eldest son &#8211; on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centrisity.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/sgt-tom-retired.html\">completing his hitch in the Marines.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of last Friday, my son has completed his service with the United States Marine Corps. He currently is attend Engineering classes in Southern California. I hope he will find some time in his busy schedule to come home and visit his family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember Tom from about age 12, of course &#8211; my stepson used to babysit him and Flash&#8217;s other two boys.\u00a0 That was a very long time ago; I last saw Tom about 18 months ago.\u00a0 A hitch in the Green Machine certainly turned him into a grownup.\u00a0 I literally had not seen him since he was in junior high.\u00a0 And there he was, on my front steps, looking like&#8230;a Marine sergeant!<\/p>\n<p>And he had quite the career; he made Sergeant in under five years, which in a Corps not known for overpromoting is quite an achievement.\u00a0 He did a tour in Anbar, as well as steaming all sorts of roundy-rounds in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; congrats, Tom, and good luck in your post service life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Sergeant Tom &#8211; aka Flash&#8217;s eldest son &#8211; on\u00a0completing his hitch in the Marines. As of last Friday, my son has completed his service with the United States Marine Corps. He currently is attend Engineering classes in Southern California. I hope he will find some time in his busy schedule to come home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}