{"id":58224,"date":"2015-02-14T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T15:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58224"},"modified":"2015-02-14T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T15:58:05","slug":"marines-vacate-yemen-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58224","title":{"rendered":"Marines vacate Yemen embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The security detail at the embassy in Yemen pulled out of the country the other day. Amid their withdrawal, were rumors that Yemeni officials disarmed them at the airport as they departed. I heard the rumors, but it didn&#8217;t sound right, so I waited. Sure enough, the Office of U.S. Marine Corps Communication put out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marines.mil\/News\/PressReleases\/PressReleaseDisplay\/tabid\/13274\/Article\/565968\/clarity-on-marine-security-force-departure-from-yemen.aspx#.VN0Zm0vvsvk.facebook\">this statement<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upon arrival at the airfield, all personal weapons were rendered inoperable in accordance with advance planning. Specifically, each bolt was removed from its weapons body and rendered inoperable by smashing with sledgehammers. The weapons bodies, minus the bolts, were then separately smashed with sledgehammers. All of these destroyed components were left at the airport &#8212; and components were scattered; no usable weapon was taken from any Marine at Sana&#8217;a airport.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear: No Marine handed a weapon to a Houthi, or had one taken from him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds more like it. I know folks are in a rush to believe everything they read on the internet (my boyfriend is a French model), especially if they can blame the current administration for perceived slights, but cooler heads usually prevail. But, there are probably people who don&#8217;t believe the statement from the Marines is true anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I actually wrote this a few days ago, so I know the news is old, but still worthy of discussion, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security detail at the embassy in Yemen pulled out of the country the other day. &hellip; <a title=\"Marines vacate Yemen embassy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58224\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines vacate Yemen embassy<\/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-58224","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\/58224","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=58224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}