{"id":28403,"date":"2012-01-20T19:59:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28403"},"modified":"2012-01-20T19:59:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T23:59:50","slug":"86000-korea-war-veterans-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28403","title":{"rendered":"86,000 Korea War veterans return home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not exactly human veterans, but veterans, nonetheless. The Korean government is shipping 86,000 M1 Garand rifles that we left behind back to the US according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/nation\/2012\/01\/116_103154.html\">The Korea Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kim Mi-sung, an official of the force and resources management office, said the defense ministry received an approval letter from the United States on Sept. 2 last year that stated Washington agreed to allow the importation of the M1s.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the U.S. government, however, rejected Seoul\u2019s proposal to export some 600,000 M1 Carbines, which were also used in the Korean War, as they come with a magazine that can carry multiple rounds unlike the Garands. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Too bad about the carbines, but they do look pretty scary with that 20-round box magazine. Maybe the Koreans can try to send them over after this next election when there&#8217;s someone running the Executive Branch with a lick of common sense.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever fired the Garand, but I&#8217;ve heard nothing but good stuff about them, their performance and their accuracy. With 86,000 more on the market, maybe I&#8217;ll get my chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not exactly human veterans, but veterans, nonetheless. The Korean government is shipping 86,000 M1 Garand &hellip; <a title=\"86,000 Korea War veterans return home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28403\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">86,000 Korea War veterans return home<\/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":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28403","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=28403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}