{"id":39000,"date":"2013-12-24T07:42:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T12:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39000"},"modified":"2013-12-24T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T12:42:28","slug":"marines-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39000","title":{"rendered":"Marines to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we reported the other day, there is a small contingent from the 1st Infantry Division in the Sudan for evacuating the State Department people in that country as violence escalates. Four US troops were injured during the weekend. So the administration is sending about 150 Marines from Spain to Djibouti in case they are needed to assist the Army force with the evacuation, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/12\/23\/us-moving-troops-in-prep-for-more-action-in-sudan\/?intcmp=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A senior U.S. Defense official told Fox News that 150 Marines are being moved from Moron, Spain, to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, in case the State Department asks for their assistance in evacuating U.S. citizens left in South Sudan. So far, no request from the department has yet come in to evacuate the roughly 100 U.S. citizens left in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after four U.S. troops were injured Saturday when gunfire hit evacuation aircraft. Three of those troops are stable and being sent to the military hospital in Germany, a spokesman said, while the fourth continues to get treatment in Nairobi, in neighboring Kenya. <\/p>\n<p>A few dozen U.S. troops already are in South Sudan providing security. Others are in Djibouti, where the U.S. maintains its only permanent military base in Africa. Ten aircraft are now stationed there including Osprey helicopters and C-130 transport planes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, this is escalating rather nicely. Good thing we&#8217;re shifting our military focus to the Pacific Rim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we reported the other day, there is a small contingent from the 1st Infantry Division &hellip; <a title=\"Marines to Africa\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39000\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines to Africa<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39000","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=39000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}