{"id":38111,"date":"2013-10-23T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38111"},"modified":"2013-10-23T16:24:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T20:24:53","slug":"last-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38111","title":{"rendered":"Last jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/2013\/10\/23\/fort-campbell-pathfinders-jump-towards-next-rendezvous-destiny\/#more-193589\">Clarksville Online<\/a> which reports that F Company, 5th Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault,) Pathfinders has conducted their last parachute jump. the unit is coming off of jump status. For the uninitiated, Pathfinders are the fellas who mark drop zones and landing zones for aerial assets such as other paratroopers and helicopter-borne forces, mostly behind enemy lines. Taking away their ability to be inserted by parachute takes a tool out of their kit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Airborne insertion is only one way our skills can be delivered, said Beville. We can air assault in, which gives us the most exact delivery, but when that\u2019s not possible we can jump, truck or ruck our way in to where we need to be. Jumping is, by far, our most discrete method. Being able to get into an area quietly is often instrumental in not kicking the hornets\u2019 nest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what the Army is thinking, or if they&#8217;re even thinking, but having a bunch of leg pathfinder companies seems pretty useless to me. It&#8217;s like a transportation company in which no one has driver&#8217;s licenses. Or something. The next time the 101st needs Pathfinders to mark a landing zone in enemy territory, like they did in Desert Storm, deep in Iraq, I hope the enemy understands and doesn&#8217;t hinder them driving to the landing zone. Or they ignore the first helicopters carrying the Pathfinders to site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin sends us a link to Clarksville Online which reports that F Company, 5th Battalion, 101st &hellip; <a title=\"Last jump\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38111\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last jump<\/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":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38111","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=38111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}