{"id":54511,"date":"2014-08-12T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54511"},"modified":"2014-08-11T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:33:30","slug":"usaussie-agreement-for-25-years-of-marine-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54511","title":{"rendered":"US\/Aussie agreement for 25 years of Marine training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry and Chuck Hagel will sign an agreement with their counterparts later this week for the rotational presence of Marines who will train near Darwin, Australia for the next 25 years, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/broad-agenda-kerry-arrives-australia-talks-052134614.html\">AFP<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Approximately 2,500 US defence force personnel will come to primarily the Northern Territory to exercise on the vast, open Commonwealth (government) military exercise grounds that we have,&#8221; Johnston told a joint press conference with Hagel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will interoperate with Australia. They will do things that they want to, exercise activities that are important to them. We&#8217;ll assist them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnston said as many as 1,200 US Marines and air force personnel were already rotating into Darwin during the current dry season in Australia&#8217;s tropical north.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this all part of the &#8220;shift to the Pacific Rim&#8221; by this Administration, while there are still wars that concern us halfway around the world. Well, at least John Kerry has finally negotiated something that didn&#8217;t get thrown back in his face by an ally for a change. So we have that going for us. One in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry and Chuck Hagel will sign an agreement with their counterparts later this week for &hellip; <a title=\"US\/Aussie agreement for 25 years of Marine training\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54511\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US\/Aussie agreement for 25 years of Marine training<\/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-54511","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\/54511","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=54511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}