{"id":54085,"date":"2014-07-22T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54085"},"modified":"2014-07-21T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T23:02:19","slug":"alaska-guardsman-mauled-by-bear-while-on-landnav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54085","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Guardsman mauled by bear while on LandNav"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jul\/21\/alaska-soldier-mauled-bear-during-training-exercis\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that an Alaska National Guardsman was mauled by a brown bear protecting her cubs while he was on a land navigation course on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The soldier was going through the woods when he encountered the bear and her cubs late Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe dropped to the ground, covered his head and remained still,\u201d [Major Candis] Olmstead said.<\/p>\n<p>The bear approached the soldier, swatting at him and biting him before retreating after about 30 seconds. The soldier blew a safety whistle, alerting medics stationed nearby, Olmstead said.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s attack was the second mauling at the base in about two months.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Gamboa was badly mauled May 18 as she jogged on a trail and encountered a bear and her two cubs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The soldier is in stable condition and recovering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that an Alaska National Guardsman was mauled by a brown bear protecting &hellip; <a title=\"Alaska Guardsman mauled by bear while on LandNav\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54085\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alaska Guardsman mauled by bear while on LandNav<\/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-54085","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\/54085","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=54085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}