{"id":21503,"date":"2010-12-14T09:53:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21503"},"modified":"2010-12-14T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T13:58:17","slug":"operation-toy-drop-2010-gets-5000-toys-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21503","title":{"rendered":"Operation Toy Drop 2010 gets 5,000 toys for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usacapoc\/5254875952\/\" title=\"Operation Toy Drop 2010 by USACAPOC, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5090\/5254875952_6b2fccb34b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Operation Toy Drop 2010\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/12\/12\/49335-operation-toy-drop-brings-thousands-of-toys-to-children-in-need\/\">paratroopers at Fort Bragg donated more than 5,000<\/a> toys this weekend to needy children for the opportunity to earn jump wings from foreign allies Botswana, Canada, Chile, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Poland and Thailand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re having a great airborne day today, and paratroopers just love jumping,&#8221; said Maj. Gen. David Blackledge, commanding general of U.S. Army Civil Affairs &#038; Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) from Sicily drop zone Saturday. &#8220;This is a great opportunity for us to give back to the communities that have supported us so well through all the deployments the last ten years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rain and sleet in the freezing morning temperatures didn&#8217;t scare away U.S. and allied nation paratroopers from donating toys and earning foreign airborne wings during the 13th annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop. The annual event got underway Friday with toy collection and sustained airborne training, and the first 1,300 paratroopers jumped onto Sicily drop zone, where large crowds gathered despite the near freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>By mid-day, rain and at times sleet blanketed the area, forcing planners to reschedule the day&#8217;s remaining jumps to next week. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/static.dvidshub.net\/flash\/AkamaiFlashPlayer.swf\" height=\"320\" width=\"420\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"src=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.dvidshub.net%2Fmedia%2Fvideo%2F1012%2FDOD_100106304.flv&#038;autostart=false\"\/><br \/>\nYou can find photos at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usacapoc\">Flickr<\/a> and videos at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/search?q=operation+toy+drop\">DVIDS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, paratroopers at Fort Bragg donated more than 5,000 toys this weekend to needy children &hellip; <a title=\"Operation Toy Drop 2010 gets 5,000 toys for kids\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21503\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Operation Toy Drop 2010 gets 5,000 toys for kids<\/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-21503","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\/21503","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=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}