{"id":37109,"date":"2013-08-15T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37109"},"modified":"2013-08-15T12:15:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:15:14","slug":"warrior-cafe-not-for-the-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37109","title":{"rendered":"Warrior Cafe not for the Warriors?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, most of you know how much I love Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The medical staff are the best (and prettiest) you could ever want. But those admin pukes suck real ginormous ass. Here’s another example; The Warrior Cafe is a centrally located dining facility in the building where most of the wounded warriors are – makes sense, right? Well, Fox News<\/a> reports that the Warrior Cafe stopped accepting meal cards;<\/p>\n

The decision would mean wounded warriors who would normally have a government-funded meal just down the hall would have to walk, wheel or limp nearly a half-mile across the Walter Reed campus to the temporary “food trailer” for breakfast, lunch and dinner. <\/p>\n

“I mean it’s called the Warrior Cafe, you would think it is for us,” said Sgt. Josh Wetzel, who lost both his legs when he stepped on a pressure plate IED outside Kandahar, Afghanistan in May 2013. He’s been recovering at Walter Reed since and has been a daily customer at the cafe. <\/p>\n

The status of the military’s decision may be in flux. <\/p>\n

After Fox News submitted multiple inquiries with senior military officials earlier this week, the Pentagon responded late Wednesday. Lt. Col. Catherine Wilkinson, a Pentagon spokesman, told Fox News that Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, has decided to reverse the changes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But they haven’t yet, actually. And they shouldn’t have to be told by Fox News that it’s the wrong decision. Those staff pukes who don’t have to deal with the patients should know that their decisions have consequences outside the doors of their offices. Like I said, the doctors and nurses at Walter Reed are world-class professionals and the admin goofs are world-class assholes.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Susan and Preston for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, most of you know how much I love Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The medical staff are the best (and prettiest) you could ever want. But those admin pukes suck real ginormous ass. Here’s another example; The Warrior Cafe is a centrally located dining facility in the building where most […]<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walter-reed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-9Ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37109","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=37109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}