{"id":2803,"date":"2024-11-22T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/promotion-delayed-for-general-who-oversaw-afghanistan-pullout-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:23:50","slug":"promotion-delayed-for-general-who-oversaw-afghanistan-pullout-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/promotion-delayed-for-general-who-oversaw-afghanistan-pullout-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Promotion delayed for general who oversaw Afghanistan pullout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top general who oversaw the 82nd Airborne Division during the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was conspicuously left out of a large batch of military promotions approved Thursday by the Senate before it left town until December. The apparent delay for Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue &mdash; President Joe Biden&rsquo;s nominee to lead the Army in Europe and Africa and set for promotion to four-star general &mdash; suggests a senator is holding the nomination&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/21\/congress\/politics-and-promotions-00191098\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top general who oversaw the 82nd Airborne Division during the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was conspicuously left out of a large batch of military promotions approved Thursday by the Senate before it left town until December. The apparent delay for Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue &mdash; President Joe Biden&rsquo;s nominee to lead the Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","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=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}