{"id":28204,"date":"2025-11-12T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/the-guns-of-general-norman-schwarzkopf\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:00:24","slug":"the-guns-of-general-norman-schwarzkopf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/the-guns-of-general-norman-schwarzkopf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guns of General Norman Schwarzkopf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MqV0GTyR9b8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>General H. Norman Schwarzkopf became a household name in 1990 after planning and leading Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. It was a rout of the invading Iraqi forces and the exclamation point at the end of a distinguished military career.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his life &#8220;The Bear&#8221; was not only a career military man, but also a hunter and avid shooter of trap, skeet, and sporting clays. The result is an exceptional collection of military and sporting arms, available this December at Rock Island Auction Company.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General H. Norman Schwarzkopf became a household name in 1990 after planning and leading Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. It was a rout of the invading Iraqi forces and the exclamation point at the end of a distinguished military career. Throughout his life &#8220;The Bear&#8221; was not only a career military man, but also&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/the-guns-of-general-norman-schwarzkopf\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Guns of General Norman Schwarzkopf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":28205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}