{"id":89245,"date":"2019-07-25T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89245"},"modified":"2019-07-25T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T11:45:11","slug":"seals-ordered-out-of-iraq-for-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89245","title":{"rendered":"SEALs Ordered Out of Iraq for Drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/seal-jump.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-89246\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/seal-jump.jpg?resize=466%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/seal-jump.jpg?resize=466%2C333&amp;ssl=1 466w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/seal-jump.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/seal-jump.jpg?resize=768%2C549&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/seal-jump.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/navy-seal-platoon-ordered-out-of-iraq-for-drinking-alcohol-while-deployed-report-says-1.591794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stars &amp; Stripes reports<\/a> that a Navy SEAL platoon has been ordered out of Iraq for drinking alcohol while deployed according to a report.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A commander overseeing U.S. special operations troops battling the Islamic State in Iraq has ordered a SEAL platoon to return to San Diego early after a \u201cperceived deterioration of good order and discipline,\u201d the military said late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The commander of the Special Operations Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve made the order, U.S. Special Operations Command said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commander lost confidence in the team\u2019s ability to accomplish the mission,\u201d the statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The unit was part of SEAL Team 7.<\/p>\n<p>SOCOM issued a statement on Wednesday 24 July 2019 but it offered little detail about what occurred in Iraq to raise the commander\u2019s concern there.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the days of &#8220;Boys will be boys&#8221; and drinking issues were a slap on the wrist.\u00a0 Perhaps this is magnified due to it being a primarily Muslim country.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but it seems like a huge loss of a tremendous asset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &amp; Stripes reports that a Navy SEAL platoon has been ordered out of Iraq for drinking alcohol while deployed according to a report. A commander overseeing U.S. special operations troops battling the Islamic State in Iraq has ordered a SEAL platoon to return to San Diego early after a \u201cperceived deterioration of good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":89246,"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-89245","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\/2019\/07\/seal-jump.jpg?fit=900%2C643&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ndr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89245","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}