{"id":40213,"date":"2014-03-07T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40213"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:07:49","slug":"2-relieved-when-four-marines-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40213","title":{"rendered":"2 relieved when four Marines die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about this a few days ago when it happened, but Pinto Nag sends us an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/base-mishandled-grenade-was-likely-cause-four-marine-deaths-n46836\">NBC News<\/a> update to the incident which cost four Marines their lives at Camp Pendelton recently;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The base said that the exact cause would never be known because the only eyewitnesses were killed. The four Marines, aged 27 to 32, had all served tours in Iraq, Afghanistan or both. Three had at least a decade of service time.<\/p>\n<p>They were killed during an exercise on ordnance disposal. The base said the grenade round was probably \u201cdropped, kicked or bumped\u201d in a demolition pit. Investigators believe it set off other explosives being gathered for disposal, NBC San Diego reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll never know what happened, but let&#8217;s destroy this officer&#8217;s and this NCO&#8217;s career anyway. Makes complete sense to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about this a few days ago when it happened, but Pinto Nag sends us &hellip; <a title=\"2 relieved when four Marines die\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40213\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 relieved when four Marines die<\/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":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40213","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=40213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}