{"id":60492,"date":"2015-06-21T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60492"},"modified":"2015-06-21T09:35:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T13:35:43","slug":"marine-special-operations-troops-are-now-raiders-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60492","title":{"rendered":"Marine special operations troops are now &#8220;Raiders&#8221; once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=60494\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/raiders.jpg\" alt=\"raiders\" width=\"173\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60494\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We told you back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54392\">August, 2014<\/a> that the name change was coming, and now it&#8217;s here, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/rangers-seals-now-raiders-marines-resurrect-historic-name-084554038.html\">Associated Press<\/a>. MARSOC, Marine Corps Special Forces Command troopers are now officially named &#8220;Raiders&#8221; drawing from their World War II legacy;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great honor to have this lineage carried forward,&#8221; said attendee Charles H. Meacham, 89, who served two years during World War II as a Raider in the Pacific. &#8220;Now MARSOC&#8217;s carrying on the legacy of the Raiders. It&#8217;s a Marine tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, the Marine Corps said the renaming gives commanders a shorthand way to refer to special operations Marines, similar to the labels &#8220;Green Beret&#8221; or &#8220;SEAL,&#8221; in what it called &#8220;an official identity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We told you back in August, 2014 that the name change was coming, and now it&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Marine special operations troops are now &#8220;Raiders&#8221; once again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60492\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine special operations troops are now &#8220;Raiders&#8221; once again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60492","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=60492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}