{"id":35874,"date":"2013-05-29T14:37:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35874"},"modified":"2013-05-29T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:38:47","slug":"lejeune-pao-nevada-mortar-accident-was-human-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35874","title":{"rendered":"Lejeune PAO: Nevada mortar accident was human error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/nation\/209342751.html\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Camp Lejeune, NC PAO issued a press release in regards to the training accident in Nevada which took the lives of seven Marines was due to human error;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The investigation also determined that the 60 mm mortar functioned properly and that the weapon system is safe when used as designed by properly trained Marines. The mortars are back in use after training on them was suspended following the accident, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that explains why the battalion commander, his company commander and battalion master gunner were fired. I&#8217;ll admit that I know jack about mortars, so I don&#8217;t know what could happened and since the Marines aren&#8217;t talking, I&#8217;ll leave it to the eleven-charleys to speculate. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to SJ for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Camp Lejeune, NC PAO issued a press release in regards &hellip; <a title=\"Lejeune PAO: Nevada mortar accident was human error\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35874\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lejeune PAO: Nevada mortar accident was human error<\/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-35874","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\/35874","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=35874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}