{"id":1549525,"date":"2022-07-12T04:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549525"},"modified":"2022-07-12T04:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:49:20","slug":"highly-decorated-army-general-suspended-after-appearing-to-mock-jill-biden-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/highly-decorated-army-general-suspended-after-appearing-to-mock-jill-biden-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly-Decorated Army General \u2018Suspended\u2019 After Appearing to Mock Jill Biden on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhighly-decorated-army-general-suspended-after-appearing-to-mock-jill-biden-on-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-army\">Army<\/a> has allegedly suspended a highly-decorated three-star general after he appeared to poke fun\u00a0at First Lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jill-biden\">Jill Biden<\/a> in a social media comment following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to\u00a0overturn Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky served as a former spokesman for the Army as well as a highly qualified expert senior mentor, in which he won a\u00a0$92-an-hour contract with the Army to advise top military\u00a0officers and other personnel on war games strategy and other military activities, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/07\/09\/army-suspends-retired-general-contract-tweet-jill-biden\/7756968001\/?gnt-cfr=1\">USA Today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ausa.org\/people\/ltg-gary-j-volesky\">lengthy career,<\/a> the three-star general\u00a0commanded soldiers at all levels, including the Army\u2019s I Corps, one of its top formations, as well as the 101st Airborne Division. He\u00a0was also deployed to Iraq for multiple operations, including the fight against ISIS, and to Liberia to provide humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Volesky received multiple awards and medals during his time in the Army, including the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star (4 OLC), Purple Heart, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Volesky was the chief of the Army\u2019s Public Affairs division from 2012 to 2014 and retired from the Army in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0the general has reportedly been relieved from his duties after responding to a\u00a0June 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/1540434135650639877\">statement<\/a> posted to the first lady\u2019s Twitter account regarding the Supreme court\u2019s decision to\u00a0overturn the\u00a01973 precedent that legalized\u00a0abortion\u00a0in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In a 6\u20133 ruling, the court upheld a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy and overturned\u00a0Roe v. Wade, handing the power back down to states which can now make the rules\u00a0around abortion laws.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Today, That Right Was Stolen From Us\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>In response to the court\u2019s decision, Jill Biden wrote that \u201cfor nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army has allegedly suspended a highly-decorated three-star general after he appeared to poke fun\u00a0at First Lady Jill Biden in a social media comment following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to\u00a0overturn Roe v. Wade. Retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky served as a former spokesman for the Army as well as a highly qualified expert senior mentor, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}