{"id":45406,"date":"2020-05-02T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=45406"},"modified":"2024-09-04T01:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T01:36:46","slug":"best-deployment-speech-ever-8-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2020\/05\/02\/best-deployment-speech-ever-8-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Deployment Speech, Ever \u2013 8 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2020\/04\/screen-shot-2020-04-29-at-13.18.56.png?w=497\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45407\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/117MPAD\"><em>Off the 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Facebook page<\/em><\/a><em><u><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today (<em>April 29, 2020<\/em>) marks the 8th Anniversary of the 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment\u2019s deployment ceremony. It was held at Area X, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and it was a nice day. The 117th asked former 103rd Troop Command Commander, COL <strong>Stephen Logan<\/strong> to be our speaker, but we had some very specific requests for his address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We asked him to include a quote from Star Wars, Star Trek, The Lord of the Rings and also to use \u201cfive big words.\u201d He delivered! He gave such an excellent speech that the Soldiers of the unit, families and unit friends still remember it to this day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/117th-mpad\/best-deployment-speech-ever\/3477657132251527\/%5d\">The following is his speech from April 29, 2012:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>The appearance of external hyperlinks did not constitute endorsement by Retiree News, this included the linked websites, information, products, or services contained therein. Retiree News did not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. Additionally, some of the sites linked to may limit the number of stories you can access without a paid subscription. All links were provided with the intent of meeting the mission of Retiree News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off the 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Facebook page Today (April 29, 2020) marks the 8th Anniversary of the 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment\u2019s deployment ceremony. It was held at Area X, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and it was a nice day. The 117th asked former 103rd Troop Command Commander, COL Stephen Logan to be our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":45407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"41483,44613,39992,36055,50672,46174","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12394,15],"tags":[81,3124,10157,10748],"class_list":["post-45406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2010s","category-history","tag-117th-mobile-public-affairs-detachment-117-mpad","tag-deployment-ceremony","tag-schofield-barracks-hawaii","tag-stephen-f-logan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}