{"id":1091,"date":"2011-11-14T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2011-11-10T20:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:52:39","slug":"the-colors-of-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2011\/11\/the-colors-of-commitment.html","title":{"rendered":"The Colors of Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2011\/11\/joe-collins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1121\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2011\/11\/joe-collins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a>Hero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Joseph Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Joseph Collins has experience in the Marines, the Army and as a police officer. He&#8217;s served tours of duty in Bosnia and Iraq, and is now an instructor at the International School of Tactical Medicine. He is highly respected in all of these fields and has faced death on numerous occasions &#8211; but there is more to this rough and tumble cop than meets the eye.<\/p>\n<p>For the video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2011\/11\/the-colors-of-committment-jospeh-collins.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Provided courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Blackfive.net\"><strong>Blackfive.net<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hero Joseph Collins Joseph Collins has experience in the Marines, the Army and as a police officer. He&#8217;s served tours of duty in Bosnia and Iraq, and is now an instructor at the International School of Tactical Medicine. 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