{"id":19454,"date":"2010-06-16T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19454"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T14:10:11","slug":"navy-parachutists-in-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19454","title":{"rendered":"Navy parachutists in the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They should really stick to the &#8220;Sea&#8221; portion of their name. Five Navy parachutists required extensive help to extricate themselves from the trees on Fort Story, a postage stamp-sized post near Virginia Beach according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2010\/06\/navy-parachutists-land-fort-story-trees\">Virginia-Pilot<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It took about two hours to get them all down.<\/p>\n<p>The city was called to help military rescue workers about 9:30 a.m., said Bruce Nedelka, the city&#8217;s emergency medical services division chief.<\/p>\n<p>One of the five service members fell to the ground when a tree limb broke, Nedelka said, and was taken to a Norfolk hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Three ambulances, two fire engines, two ladder trucks, two specialty rescue trucks and two battalion chiefs were dispatched to the scene, Nedelka said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;d be a lot funnier if someone hadn&#8217;t got hurt (and I hope he has a speedy recovery). <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve landed in the trees a few times and I was always able to free myself without all of the first-responder drama. One particularly comfortable landing at Husky DZ in Alaska left me with my parachute in one tree and my WICI bag (CIWI bag?) in another &#8211; like a big hammock. Best landing ever. I deployed the reserve parachute and climbed down the OUTSIDE. It was a little harder getting the platoon&#8217;s radios and M60 tripod and ammo out of the WICI bag, though &#8211; but that&#8217;s why they paid me that extra $55\/month..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They should really stick to the &#8220;Sea&#8221; portion of their name. Five Navy parachutists required extensive &hellip; <a title=\"Navy parachutists in the trees\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19454\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy parachutists in the trees<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454","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=19454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}