{"id":82234,"date":"2025-03-02T01:49:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=82234"},"modified":"2025-03-02T01:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:53:22","slug":"a-fathers-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/a-fathers-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Father&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>H\/T Wynn<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82235 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bowers-M16-ACOG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bowers-M16-ACOG.png 565w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bowers-M16-ACOG-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-title font-primary text-secondary-900 text-4xl lg:text-15xl font-bold leading-2xl lg:leading-15xl mb-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/tactical\/a-gift-from-his-dad-saved-this-marines-life-in-fallujah\/\">A Gift from his dad saved this Marine\u2019s life in Fallujah<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/mighty-tactical\/acog-optic\/\">Trijicon ACOG<\/a>\u00a0on an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/popular\/marines-complaints-m16a4\/\">M16 rifle<\/a>\u00a0is to GWOT Marines what the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/mighty-tactical\/m1-garand-ammo-capacity\/\">M1 Garand<\/a>\u00a0is to WWII Marines: iconic. In fact, Trijicon has a quote by General James Mattis on the company website that reads, \u201cThe ACOG<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0mounted on the M16 service rifle has proven to be the biggest improvement in lethality for the Marine infantryman since the introduction of the M1 Garand in World War Two.\u201d<\/h2>\n<h2>Having trained to engage targets out to 500 yards with iron sights, Marines equipped with 4x scopes and Bullet Drop Compensator reticles became even more deadly. However, at the outbreak of the Iraq War, Marines were woefully under equipped. Some even had to purchase spare magazines privately because the arms rooms didn\u2019t have enough to go around. Luckily for Sgt. Todd B. Bowers, his father gifted him an ACOG two days before he left for Iraq.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/tactical\/a-gift-from-his-dad-saved-this-marines-life-in-fallujah\/\">RTWT @ We Are The Mighty<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8216;If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?&#8217;<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">-Matthew 7:11<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82236 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bowers-ACOG-Impact.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bowers-ACOG-Impact.png 720w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bowers-ACOG-Impact-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79753 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/USMC-BD-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/USMC-BD-2.png 800w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/USMC-BD-2-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/USMC-BD-2-768x404.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82237 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/USMC-Flag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/T Wynn &nbsp; A Gift from his dad saved this Marine\u2019s life in Fallujah &nbsp; The\u00a0Trijicon ACOG\u00a0on an\u00a0M16 rifle\u00a0is to GWOT Marines what the\u00a0M1 Garand\u00a0is to WWII Marines: iconic. In fact, Trijicon has a quote by General James Mattis on the company website that reads, \u201cThe ACOG\u00ae\u00a0mounted on the M16 service rifle has proven to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1247,3172,1286,1898,24],"tags":[18575,3878,763,18576,18577,13412,1050,8123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82239,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82234\/revisions\/82239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}