{"id":63489,"date":"2017-01-16T16:26:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/mark-norman-outspoken-military-vice-chief-relieved-of-duty-without-explanation.html"},"modified":"2017-01-16T16:26:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:26:56","slug":"mark-norman-outspoken-military-vice-chief-relieved-of-duty-without-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/mark-norman-outspoken-military-vice-chief-relieved-of-duty-without-explanation.html","title":{"rendered":"Mark Norman, outspoken military vice-chief, relieved of duty without explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second-highest ranking officer in the Canadian military has been temporarily relieved of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Senior defence sources say Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, who was appointed to the post of vice chief of defence staff last summer, was informed of the decision Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A letter circulating among senior commanders of the military says Norman will be replaced on an interim basis by the head of the navy, Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s top military commander, Gen. Jonathan Vance, ordered Norman&#8217;s removal this morning without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were equally tight-lipped when asked about the reason.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being appointed to the deputy chief position, Norman made his mark as a plain-talking commander of the navy.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/norman-military-relieved-1.3937401?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second-highest ranking officer in the Canadian military has been temporarily relieved of duty. Senior defence sources say Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, who was appointed to the post of vice chief of defence staff last summer, was informed of the decision Monday morning. A letter circulating among senior commanders of the military says Norman will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-63489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}