{"id":75854,"date":"2017-11-09T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T14:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75854"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:32:47","slug":"mg-ryan-gonsalves-promotion-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75854","title":{"rendered":"MG Ryan Gonsalves&#8217; promotion delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=75855\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75855\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ryan-Gonsalves-240x300.jpg?resize=240%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ryan-Gonsalves.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ryan-Gonsalves.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ryan-Gonsalves.jpg?resize=266%2C333&amp;ssl=1 266w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ryan-Gonsalves.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us a link to the news that Major General Ryan Gonsalves&#8217; promotion to Lieutenant General was held up because he mistreated a Congressional staffer, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/general-s-nomination-stalls-after-army-finds-he-mistreated-congressional-staffer-1.496771\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Gonsalves, who was considered to be in contention to serve as the next head of U.S. Army Europe, is now serving as a \u201cspecial assistant to the commanding general, III Corps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral Gonsalves was substantiated for a failure to treat a Congressional staffer with dignity and respect,\u201d the Army said in a statement. \u201cThat finding is currently under review to determine what, if any, further action will be taken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Army did not provide additional details about the nature of the incident or the congressional staff member who was involved. Gonsalves could not be reached for immediate comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unless the facts of the case include some sort of physical abuse, I&#8217;d have to respond with &#8220;So f&#8217;n what?&#8221; Only Congress would complain about an aide&#8217;s abuse and  attempting to destroy a general&#8217;s career. Last time I checked, a Congressional aide doesn&#8217;t outrank a general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to the news that Major General Ryan Gonsalves&#8217; promotion to Lieutenant General was held up because he mistreated a Congressional staffer, according to Stars &#038; Stripes; Gonsalves, who was considered to be in contention to serve as the next head of U.S. Army Europe, is now serving as a \u201cspecial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ryan-Gonsalves.jpg?fit=1600%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jJs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75854","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=75854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}