{"id":34507,"date":"2013-03-12T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34507"},"modified":"2013-03-12T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:26:24","slug":"a-bad-day-for-military-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34507","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Day for Military Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We lost eight brothers-in-arms yesterday in military aircraft crashes.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/03\/12\/official-says-5-us-troops-killed-in-afghanistan-helicopter-crash\/\">helicopter crash near Kandahar, Afghanistan<\/a>, claimed the lives of five US soldiers yesterday.\u00a0 Initial reports indicate no enemy activity in the area at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/03\/11\/navy-aircraft-crashes-in-rural-washington-state\/\">A separate incident in Washington state yesterday was also deadly<\/a>.\u00a0 An EA-6B attached to VAQ-129 and operating out of NAS Whidbey Island crashed in a rural area yesterday, killing 3 Navy personnel.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reported survivors in either incident.\u00a0 Names of those killed have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, my brothers-in-arms.\u00a0 May God comfort their surviving family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost eight brothers-in-arms yesterday in military aircraft crashes. A helicopter crash near Kandahar, Afghanistan, claimed &hellip; <a title=\"A Bad Day for Military Aviation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34507\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Bad Day for Military Aviation<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34507","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\/34507","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}