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To balance my previous post<\/a> let me say I’m also in agreement with NZPundit Regarding the Army<\/a>. I know I could not have dealt with the way the military needs to condition its people to act as needed, but an army needs people who can do so, and do well; when in military situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To balance my previous post let me say I’m also in agreement with NZPundit Regarding the Army. I know I could not have dealt with the way the military needs to condition its people to act as needed, but an army needs people who can do so, and do well; when in military situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"1","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":221,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2005\/02\/19\/things_i_hate\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":0},"title":"Things I hate","author":"Brian","date":"19 February 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"There are some things that people do that I dislike intensely. 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