{"id":20973,"date":"2026-04-05T02:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gen-george-says-army-deserves-leaders-of-character-in-farewell-letter\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:22:13","slug":"gen-george-says-army-deserves-leaders-of-character-in-farewell-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gen-george-says-army-deserves-leaders-of-character-in-farewell-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. George says Army deserves \u2018leaders of character\u2019 in farewell letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. Randy George, the U.S. Army&#8217;s chief of staff ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on Friday sent a farewell letter saying the Army deserves &#8220;leaders of character.&#8221; George thanked Army officials for their support in an email posted on Reddit&#8217;s Army page. An Army official confirmed the email&#8217;s legitimacy to Blue Light News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5816539-general-george-farewell-letter\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. Randy George, the U.S. Army&#8217;s chief of staff ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on Friday sent a farewell letter saying the Army deserves &#8220;leaders of character.&#8221; George thanked Army officials for their support in an email posted on Reddit&#8217;s Army page. An Army official confirmed the email&#8217;s legitimacy to Blue Light News&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}