{"id":2040,"date":"2021-03-13T07:20:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T11:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2021-03-13T07:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T11:20:48","slug":"march-2021-family-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"March 2021: Family Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>March saw us making a quick trip down to Tampa for a family celebration. Technically, I suppose, it counts as an RV trip since we drove ACE down there and stayed at the Lazy Days RV campground, but really the trip had nothing to do with RV&#8217;ing. Instead it was a celebration of son #2&#8217;s promotion to Lieutenant Colonel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P3054094-Medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P3054094-Medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P3054094-Medium.jpg 576w, https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P3054094-Medium-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 85vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel is actually a pretty big deal. Nearly all Army officers who hang around for four years make it to Captain, which is the highest of the &#8220;company grade&#8221; officers, but at the next level, Major (the start of &#8220;field grade&#8221; officers), things start to thin out. The Army has about 80,000 officers (excluding Generals, of which there are only a couple hundred), but only about 13,000 are Lieutenant Colonels or Colonels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P3054090-Medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P3054090-Medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P3054090-Medium.jpg 512w, https:\/\/skiprd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/P3054090-Medium-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>It&#8217;s trite, but true. While the Army enlists the soldier, it reenlists the spouse. Army life is certainly hard (Robert has had four deployments, and a few assignments, like the one at Fort Irwin in the middle of the Mojave desert, that were, um, &#8220;challenging&#8221;), but in many ways it&#8217;s harder on the families than it is on the soldier himself. No one can succeed in the Army without a very supportive family, most of all the spouse.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, we&#8217;re headed back to Walt Disney World and Fort Wilderness in a couple weeks for an impromptu family reunion, so the next post will be about actual RVing stuff. Until then, though, well done, Robert &#8230; you make us proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March saw us making a quick trip down to Tampa for a family celebration. Technically, I suppose, it counts as an RV trip since we drove ACE down there and stayed at the Lazy Days RV campground, but really the trip had nothing to do with RV&#8217;ing. Instead it was a celebration of son #2&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=2040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;March 2021: Family Pride&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p68mhx-wU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}