{"id":29320,"date":"2012-03-30T07:31:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T11:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29320"},"modified":"2012-03-30T07:31:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T11:31:38","slug":"3rd-infantry-regiment-and-the-eib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29320","title":{"rendered":"3rd Infantry Regiment and the EIB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/EIB-Roadmarch.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29321\" title=\"EIB Roadmarch\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/EIB-Roadmarch.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) has placed a number of photos on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.388831621140953.96851.109701809053937&amp;type=3\">Facebook page<\/a> of their Expert Infantry Badge testing last week. For those of you who have no experience with the EIB, it&#8217;s a series of combat-related tests that an infantryman must pass in order to earn the coveted EIB;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eib11.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29322\" title=\"eib11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eib11.jpg?resize=500%2C125\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eib11.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eib11.jpg?resize=300%2C75&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no room for error in the test, a candidate must have a perfect score on the test to earn the EIB. The photo at the top is during the final mile of the 12-mile road march at Fort AP Hill. According to the 3rd IR;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>353 candidates attempted to earn the coveted EIB; only 128 received it by the end of the week. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s a big f###ing deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) has placed a number of photos on their Facebook page of their Expert Infantry Badge testing last week. For those of you who have no experience with the EIB, it&#8217;s a series of combat-related tests that an infantryman must pass in order to earn the coveted EIB; There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-7CU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}