{"id":62549,"date":"2015-10-30T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T15:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62549"},"modified":"2015-10-30T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T15:35:39","slug":"operators-headed-to-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62549","title":{"rendered":"Operators headed to Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=28097\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28097\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last-convoy-out-of-Iraq.jpg\" alt=\"last convoy out of Iraq\" width=\"294\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28097\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_UNITED_STATES_SYRIA?SITE=AP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2015-10-30-11-13-34\">Associated Press<\/a> which reports that unnamed senior DoD officials have told them that special operators are headed to northern Syria to help rebels against the Assad Administration there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The deployment marks the first time U.S. troops will be working openly on the ground in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials say President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of fewer than 50 commandos to help coalition forces coordinate with the local troops.<\/p>\n<p>One official also says the U.S. will be sending additional aircraft, including F-15 fighters and A-10s to the Incirlik air base in Turkey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I&#8217;m not mistaken, those are the Syrian rebel folks that the Russian airstrikes seem to be targeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link from the Associated Press which reports that unnamed senior DoD &hellip; <a title=\"Operators headed to Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62549\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Operators headed to Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549","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=62549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}