{"id":155660,"date":"2024-04-16T09:05:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155660"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:25:56","slug":"marines-at-trump-resort-did-not-violate-military-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155660","title":{"rendered":"Marines at Trump resort did not violate military rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos of Marines at Mar-a-Lago circulated on the internet. Concerns were raised that these Marines were at a political event, a violation of Military regulations against politicking in uniform. However, the Marines clarified that the presence of service members at this estate was for an approved event supporting a fundraiser that was open to the public.<\/p>\n

From the Marine Corps Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement posted on social media over the weekend, service officials said the Marines — reserve members of the 4th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company — were in attendance on April 11 at the Florida resort to serve as a color guard for a gala hosted by the Grey Team, a nonprofit organization focused on preventing military suicides.<\/p>\n

“The request was reviewed by Marine Forces Reserve Community Relations and deemed eligible for support,” service leaders said in a statement. “The event was open to the public and helped raise awareness about military and veteran suicides.<\/p>\n

“The event was neither a political fundraiser, nor was the 45th president of the United States in attendance.”<\/p>\n

Mar-a-Lago is the site of numerous non-political events as well as a hub for Trump’s campaign operations.<\/p>\n

Despite approval for Marines to participate in the Grey Team event, photos of attendees posing alongside the uniformed troops at Trump’s well-known property almost immediately raised concerns that military personnel may have violated Defense Department rules about participation in political events.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Marine Corps Times has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photos of Marines at Mar-a-Lago circulated on the internet. Concerns were raised that these Marines were at a political event, a violation of Military regulations against politicking in uniform. However, the Marines clarified that the presence of service members at this estate was for an approved event supporting a fundraiser that was open to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marines","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-EuE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155660","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}