{"id":6611,"date":"2008-06-27T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T01:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/watch-your-back\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T01:05:21","slug":"watch-your-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/watch-your-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch your back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_SCjVUmrlWDc\/SCw4QYr68nI\/AAAAAAAACPY\/VC2yqUtDgcU\/s1600\/2008.05.05%2BGriffon.JPG\" alt=\"[2008.05.05+Griffon.JPG]\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>He (Patton) rammed a submachine gun into the belly of a soldier collapsed from exhaustion on a North African beach, waking him suddenly to his explanation.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I know you&#8217;re tired. We&#8217;re all tired. That makes no difference. The next beach you land on will be defended by Germans. I don&#8217;t want one of them coming up behind you and hitting you over the head with a sockful of shit.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>That &#8220;sockful of shit&#8221; brought reality home more certainly than any other weapon he could have mentioned.<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nFrom &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0884053792\/sr=1-3\/qid=1137724060\/ref=sr_1_3\/102-6444519-5645767?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">The American Tradition<\/a>&#8216; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithpurtell.com\/kthings\/body_gway.htm\">John Greenway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>From the always interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/militarymotivator.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/back.html\">Military Motivators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cross posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/space4commerce.blogspot.com\/\">Space For Commerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He (Patton) rammed a submachine gun into the belly of a soldier collapsed from exhaustion on a North African beach, waking him suddenly to his explanation. I know you&#8217;re tired. We&#8217;re all tired. That makes no difference. The next beach you land on will be defended by Germans. I don&#8217;t want one of them coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}