{"id":1845,"date":"2012-02-17T07:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.14.234.116\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2012-06-19T08:54:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:54:03","slug":"passing-the-guidon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"Passing the guidon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, I assumed command of the WTU at Fort Huachuca.\u00a0 By company command standards, that&#8217;s a long, long time, at least at Ft Huachuca. The standard command tour for a Captain is one year, and battalion commanders usually go 2 years.\u00a0 I gave props to a bunch of different people in my &#8216;outgoing commander&#8217; speech after handing off the guidon, as is appropriate.\u00a0 While I could spend more time here elaborating on that list because I tried to stay within the standard 3-minute time limit, I won&#8217;t.\u00a0 The blanket &#8220;Thank you, everyone, for helping me to suck less&#8221; is what I&#8217;m sticking with.\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t really processed not being the guy who always gets the call when bad stuff happens, I&#8217;ve got a month of leave to get that all straight in my head.<\/p>\n<p>Here I am handing the guidon back off to COL Moran:<br \/>\n<a href=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Relinquishing-Command.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1890\" title=\"Relinquishing Command\" src=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Relinquishing-Command-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Relinquishing-Command-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Relinquishing-Command.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on it went to the new WTU Commander, CPT Carrie Davidson:<br \/>\n<a href=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CPT-Davidson-Assumes-Command.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1891\" title=\"CPT Davidson Assumes Command\" src=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CPT-Davidson-Assumes-Command-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CPT-Davidson-Assumes-Command-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CPT-Davidson-Assumes-Command.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good luck, and Godspeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, I assumed command of the WTU at Fort Huachuca.\u00a0 By company command standards, that&#8217;s a long, long time, at least at Ft Huachuca. The standard command tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}