{"id":28447,"date":"2012-01-25T04:03:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T08:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28447"},"modified":"2012-01-25T06:54:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T10:54:35","slug":"go-navy-bravo-zulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28447","title":{"rendered":"GO NAVY &#8211; Bravo Zulu!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/01\/25\/10229917-american-hostage-in-somalia-rescued-by-us-navy-seals-in-overnight-raid\" target=\"_blank\">American hostage in Somalia rescued by US Navy SEALs in overnight raid<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a daring nighttime raid Tuesday, U.S. Navy SEALs rescued two hostages, including one American, who were being held by kidnappers in Somalia, U.S. officials tell NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>American Jessica Buchanan, 32,\u00a0and a 60-year-old Dane, Poul Thisted, were working for a Danish relief organization in northern Somalia when they were kidnapped last October.\u00a0U.S. officials described their kidnappers as heavily armed common criminals with no known ties to any organized militant group.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. officials, two teams of\u00a0Navy SEALs landed by helicopter near the compound where the two hostages were being held.\u00a0 As the SEALS approached the compound on foot gunfire broke out, the U.S. officials said, and several of the militants were reportedly killed. There is no word that any of the Americans were wounded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not much worth adding. Bad guys down.\u00a0Innocents saved.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, for you Army types BZ:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a naval signal, conveyed by flaghoist or voice radio, meaning &#8220;well done&#8221;; it has also passed into the spoken and written vocabulary. It can be combined with the &#8220;negative&#8221; signal, spoken or written NEGAT, to say &#8220;NEGAT Bravo Zulu,&#8221; or &#8220;not well done.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American hostage in Somalia rescued by US Navy SEALs in overnight raid In a daring nighttime &hellip; <a title=\"GO NAVY &#8211; Bravo Zulu!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28447\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GO NAVY &#8211; Bravo Zulu!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28447","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}