{"id":39391,"date":"2014-01-21T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39391"},"modified":"2014-01-21T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:54:56","slug":"backup-plan-for-olympics-in-sochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39391","title":{"rendered":"Backup plan for Olympics in Sochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/worldnow\/la-fg-wn-russia-terrorism-suspect-sochi-20140120,0,6353555.story#axzz2r2KDmc00\">the Russians are busy looking for Ruzana Ibragimova<\/a>, the &#8220;White Widow&#8221; who is suspected to be at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the US Navy is cruising the area as a prudent measure if they need to un-ass the AO says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/europe\/us-warships-to-provide-security-backup-for-sochi-olympics-navy-says-1.263164\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cAir and naval assets, to include two Navy ships in the Black Sea, will be available if requested for all manner of contingencies in support of \u2014 and in consultation with \u2014 the Russian government,\u201d Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. commanders in the region are conducting \u201cprudent planning and preparations\u201d if that support is required, Kirby said.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about security threats during the Olympics have grow in the wake of the deadly Dec. 29 explosion by a suspected suicide bomber in the southern Russian city of Volgograd. The bombing was followed a day later by an alleged suicide attack in the same city on a trolleybus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In addition to ships forward-positioned in the Black Sea, the U.S. military maintains numerous military assets in the region that could assist in any evacuation of U.S. athletes, such as C-17s at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, special operations units based out of Stuttgart, Germany, and crisis-response U.S. Marines out of Spain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I&#8217;m glad that there are military assets in place, because the US military&#8217;s main function is protection of US citizens, that&#8217;s an awful lot of money to spend on a sporting event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Russians are busy looking for Ruzana Ibragimova, the &#8220;White Widow&#8221; who is suspected to &hellip; <a title=\"Backup plan for Olympics in Sochi\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39391\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backup plan for Olympics in Sochi<\/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-39391","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\/39391","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=39391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}