{"id":64903,"date":"2016-03-19T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64903"},"modified":"2016-03-19T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:31:50","slug":"one-marine-killed-several-wounded-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64903","title":{"rendered":"One Marine Killed, Several Wounded in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/03\/19\/american-soldier-killed-in-isis-rocket-attack-in-northern-iraq-official-says.html\"><em>Fox News is reporting<\/em><\/a> that one Marine has been killed and several others injured by indirect fire in Iraq.\u00a0 They were reportedly injured by an ISIS rocket that landed near their position in Makhmur, a town approximately 75 miles southeast of Mosul.<\/p>\n<p>A US defense official termed the attack &#8220;a lucky strike by ISIS&#8221;.\u00a0 Names of the individual killed, those injured, and the exact number injured have not yet been released by DoD.\u00a0 The casualty total (KIA + WIA) is believed to be 5 or less.<\/p>\n<p>The profession of arms is not without risk, whether in peace or war.\u00a0 But as I&#8217;ve said elsewhere, no place in a <em>bona fide<\/em> combat zone is truly safe.\u00a0 IDF doesn&#8217;t care where you are, what your MOS\/specialty might be, or what you&#8217;re doing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a true equal opportunity threat.<\/p>\n<p>May God comfort the family, friends, and professional colleagues of the departed, and may He grant speedy and complete healing to those injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting that one Marine has been killed and several others injured by indirect &hellip; <a title=\"One Marine Killed, Several Wounded in Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64903\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Marine Killed, Several Wounded in Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,184,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-marine-corps","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64903","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}