{"id":23488,"date":"2011-05-19T05:25:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23488"},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:25:03","slug":"navy-4-pirates-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23488","title":{"rendered":"Navy: 4, Pirates: 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2011\/05\/navy-bulkeley-pirate-attack-foiled-051811w\/\">Navy Times<\/a>, a tale of woe with a happy ending;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[USS] Bulkeley responded to the mayday call, first heard by a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship and relayed to Combined Maritime Forces, by launching an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Squadron Light 48, Detachment 4, to investigate. When it arrived on station \u2014 a command spokesman could not provide the distance or transit time \u2014 the crew saw four individuals in a skiff firing at Artemis Glory, using small arms.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter crew opened fire on the skiff under what command spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Sam Hearn of the Royal Navy said was the principle of \u201cextended unit self-defense\u201d on behalf of the crude carrier. All four pirates are believed to have been killed, Hearn said. Hearn said he did not know which weapon system was employed but noted that the SH-60B is equipped with a single M-240 machine gun.<\/p>\n<p>Officials do not believe the helicopter was fired upon by the pirates, Hearn said.<\/p>\n<p>Hearn said Bulkeley did not pick up the bodies&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and the helicopter crew lived happily ever after. Osama bin Squarepants isn&#8217;t lonely any more &#8211; four more virgins join him in his pineapple under the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Navy Times, a tale of woe with a happy ending; [USS] Bulkeley responded to &hellip; <a title=\"Navy: 4, Pirates: 0\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23488\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy: 4, Pirates: 0<\/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":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23488","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=23488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}