{"id":112516,"date":"2021-04-13T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112516"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:45:25","slug":"uss-mcfauls-skipper-no-bud-s-no-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112516","title":{"rendered":"USS McFaul’s Skipper: No BUD\/S? No Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Commanding Officer of the USS McFaul (DDG-74) – CDR Bobby Rowden<\/a> – is creating quite a controversy.\u00a0 The USS McFaul, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was named for U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Donald L. McFaul. McFaul was killed in action during Operation Just Cause – the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama.<\/p>\n

It seems that the CO authorized morale patches made for the crew featuring the U.S. Navy SEAL trident.<\/p>\n

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As expected, this is not well received in the SEAL community.\u00a0 CPO McFaul is a legend, but the SEAL Trident must be earned, not given.\u00a0 Besides, it is an official Navy warfare device.<\/p>\n

There is no posted article about this.\u00a0 It was posted on the USS McFaul Facebook page<\/a> and the word spread quickly throughout the community.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.<\/p>\n

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The Commanding Officer of the USS McFaul (DDG-74) – CDR Bobby Rowden – is creating quite a controversy.\u00a0 The USS McFaul, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was named for U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Donald L. McFaul. McFaul was killed in action during Operation Just Cause – the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama. It seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":112517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy","category-phony-seal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/173470242_10219715102214221_2910045827355976929_n.jpg?fit=540%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-tgM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112516","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=112516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}