{"id":104765,"date":"2020-09-06T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104765"},"modified":"2020-09-06T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T13:34:53","slug":"59-y-o-combat-vet-attends-boot-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104765","title":{"rendered":"59 y\/o Combat Vet Attends Boot Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/59yocombatvet.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104766\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/59yocombatvet.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/59yocombatvet.jpg?resize=333%2C333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/59yocombatvet.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/59yocombatvet.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/59yocombatvet.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/59yocombatvet.jpg?w=1043&amp;ssl=1 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FoxNews reports that 59 year old combat veteran Monte L. Gould was going to be short on his retirement so elected to enter boot camp again.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/59-year-old-combat-vet-monte-gould-basic-training-army-reserve?fbclid=IwAR217vaS3e6j_PF1Bk8AVKX4CH78gD0qbDiwnXvGbErbU8cgmsZXtPwUKrU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>59-year-old combat vet redoes basic training after 10-year break to join Army reserve<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A 59-year-old combat veteran just completed basic training in order to reenlist in the\u00a0Army\u00a0Reserve after spending more than a decade out of the\u00a0armed forces, authorities said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cThe next time you\u2019re feeling unmotivated, channel Monte L. Gould,\u201d the Army\u2019s Syracuse recruiting battalion wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Staff Sgt. Gould, who previously served in the\u00a0Marine Corps\u00a0trained in civil affairs, returned to boot camp at Fort Jackson, S.C., in June. He completed it late last month after spending the majority of his time serving as a squad leader, according to the Army Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Besides becoming eligible for retirement, he also claimed that he wanted to give something back to the younger troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews reports that 59 year old combat veteran Monte L. Gould was going to be short on his retirement so elected to enter boot camp again. 59-year-old combat vet redoes basic training after 10-year break to join Army reserve A 59-year-old combat veteran just completed basic training in order to reenlist in the\u00a0Army\u00a0Reserve after spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":104767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/59yocombatvet-icon.jpg?fit=365%2C341&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-rfL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}