{"id":39995,"date":"2014-02-24T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T21:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39995"},"modified":"2014-02-24T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T21:21:27","slug":"old-guard-delivers-700-pounds-of-food-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39995","title":{"rendered":"Old Guard delivers 700 pounds of food to charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=39996\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Old-Guard-RuckRun--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Old Guard RuckRun-\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Old-Guard-RuckRun--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Old-Guard-RuckRun--443x333.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Old-Guard-RuckRun--400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Old-Guard-RuckRun-.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our buddy, Nicky, sends us a link to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlnow.com\/2014\/02\/24\/soldiers-deliver-700-pounds-of-food-to-afac-on-foot\/\">Arlington Now<\/a> about some troops from the Old Guard at Fort Myers, VA who delivered by foot 700 pounds of food to the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 50 members of the Army\u2019s 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment delivered nearly 700 pounds of donated food to the Arlington Food Assistance Center this morning.<\/p>\n<p>In case the donation wasn\u2019t impressive enough, the soldiers delivered the food on foot, marching 4 miles from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall to AFAC\u2019s building in Shirlington with rucksacks on their backs.<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd Infantry Regiment is also known as the Old Guard. The donation was made by the Old Guard\u2019s 4th Battalion, which consists of ceremonial companies, a military police company, and the guards of the Tomb of the Unknowns, among others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The AFAC says that they feed about 1800 families in the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Nicky, sends us a link to an article in Arlington Now about some troops &hellip; <a title=\"Old Guard delivers 700 pounds of food to charity\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39995\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Guard delivers 700 pounds of food to charity<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39995","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=39995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}