{"id":62113,"date":"2015-10-02T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62113"},"modified":"2015-10-02T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T13:39:11","slug":"c-130-goes-down-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62113","title":{"rendered":"C-130 goes down in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62114\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/c130_4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"c130_4\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/c130_4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/c130_4-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/c130_4.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/6-us-members-among-11-dead-afghan-plane-052118482.html\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that a C-130 crashed in eastern Afghanistan overnight. It looks like all 11 onboard, including 6 Air Force crew members, have died in the crash;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The six U.S. service members who died comprised the plane&#8217;s crew. The passengers were civilian contractors working with NATO&#8217;s Resolute Support mission and were the only passengers on board, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The airmen were assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Air Lift Squadron, part of the 455th, Wickman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/02\/world\/asia\/military-plane-in-fatal-crash-in-afghanistan.html?_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a> says that there were 14 aboard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/military\/c-130-transport-plane-crashes-afghanistan-defense-officials-say-n437191\">NBC News<\/a> says 13.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban claim that they shot the aircraft down, but that&#8217;s not very likely and &#8220;a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity&#8221; denies that that there were any reports of hostile gunfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that a C-130 crashed in eastern Afghanistan overnight. It looks like all &hellip; <a title=\"C-130 goes down in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62113\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">C-130 goes down in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62113","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=62113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}