{"id":48231,"date":"2014-05-21T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48231"},"modified":"2014-05-20T18:51:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T22:51:20","slug":"another-o-6-out-for-hostile-work-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48231","title":{"rendered":"Another O-6 out for &#8220;hostile work environment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=48232\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48232\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Col.-John-E.-Merna.jpg?resize=225%2C247\" alt=\"Col. John E. Merna\" width=\"225\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48232\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/31st-meu-commander-resigns-on-okinawa-amid-inquiry-1.283997\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.31stmeu.marines.mil\/About\/Leadership\/CommandingOfficer.aspx\">Colonel John Merna<\/a> has resigned his position as the commander of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit for a malady that has infected a whole crowd of his rank;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Col. John Merna resigned following a preliminary inquiry within the command element into allegations of \u201cintemperate behavior\u201d and \u201clanguage,\u201d according to a Marine Corps statement. The allegations were first made in a command climate survey.<\/p>\n<p>Merna\u2019s resignation was accepted by Lt. Gen. John Wissler, commander of the III Marine Expeditionary Force. Merna has been in command of the 31st MEU since June 1, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMerna, a combat veteran and a widely respected leader, recognized his incompatibility to continue leading the 31st MEU, accepted responsibility and accountability for his actions, and immediately tendered a letter requesting termination of his command authority and responsibility,\u201d the statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that Colonel John Merna has resigned his position as the commander of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit for a malady that has infected a whole crowd of his rank; Col. John Merna resigned following a preliminary inquiry within the command element into allegations of \u201cintemperate behavior\u201d and \u201clanguage,\u201d according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Col.-John-E.-Merna.jpg?fit=225%2C247&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-cxV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48231","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=48231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}