{"id":3223,"date":"2012-06-18T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2012-06-10T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T16:29:04","slug":"joe-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/06\/joe-reagan.html","title":{"rendered":"Joe Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/files\/2012\/06\/br-man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3279\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2012\/06\/br-man-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Military Heroes &#8211; U. S. Marine Corps<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Joe Reagan<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Cuba-controlled territory is a perilous patch of earth called the Cactus Curtain. Spiked with a needle bed of Optunia cacti planted in 1961 to keep Cubans from defecting into U.S. custody, it is even deadlier as the second-largest minefield on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1993, Joe Reagan checked into his first overseas assignment in Castro country three days after seeing A Few Good Men, the Aaron Sorkin-penned Jack Nicholson drama that defined Gitmo for a decade before the post-9\/11 rebranding of black hoods and orange jumpsuits took hold.<\/p>\n<p>For the story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/225batonrouge.com\/article\/20120531\/225BATONROUGE01\/305299972\/1001\/businessreport1005\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/225batonrouge.com\/\"><strong>225 Baton Rouge<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Heroes &#8211; U. S. Marine Corps Joe Reagan Between the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Cuba-controlled territory is a perilous patch of earth called the Cactus Curtain. Spiked with a needle bed of Optunia cacti planted in 1961 to keep Cubans from defecting into U.S. custody, it is even deadlier as the second-largest minefield&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joe Reagan - America in Uniform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/06\/joe-reagan.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joe Reagan - America in Uniform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Military Heroes &#8211; U. 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