{"id":13174,"date":"2009-08-02T06:12:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T11:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2009-08-02T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T14:28:08","slug":"scott-speicher-idd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13174","title":{"rendered":"Scott Speicher ID&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting that the body of Desert Shield\/Desert Storm&#8217;s only MIA has been positively ID&#8217;d. No links on their website yet, but here&#8217;s one from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/nation\/52302862.html\">Star Tribune<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officials say the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology has positively identified the remains of Captain Michael &#8220;Scott&#8221; Speicher, whose disappearance has bedeviled investigators since his jet was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the war.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon initially declared him killed, but uncertainty led officials over the years to change his official status a number of times to &#8220;missing in action&#8221; and &#8220;missing-captured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they got new information from Iraqi citizens last month that led them to a place in the desert believed to be the crash site \u2014 and there they found the remains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Added: More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2009\/08\/breaking-remains-of-scott-speicher-found.html\">Blackfive<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/08\/02\/remains-of-scott-speicher-idd\/\">Michelle Malkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting that the body of Desert Shield\/Desert Storm&#8217;s only MIA has been positively &hellip; <a title=\"Scott Speicher ID&#8217;d\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13174\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scott Speicher ID&#8217;d<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}