{"id":64914,"date":"2016-03-21T09:17:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64914"},"modified":"2016-03-21T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T13:17:42","slug":"26th-marine-expeditionary-unit-deploys-more-marines-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64914","title":{"rendered":"26th Marine Expeditionary Unit deploys more Marines to Iraq"},"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>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/03\/20\/more-marines-headed-iraq-fight-isis-after-rocket-attack\/82049284\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a> reports that the 26th MEU is deploying more Marines to Iraq from the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group in the wake of the rocket attack near Makhmur, Iraq where Staff Sergeant Louis Cardin was killed the other day;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Makhmur is also where the Nineveh Operations Center is located. It is a primary base from which the U.S. can support Iraqi forces when they eventually try to retake Mosul, which fell to the Islamic State in June 2014. Iraqi military leaders plan to deploy about 4,500 troops to the area for the upcoming operation.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Marines have been quietly deploying to Iraq over the past 16 months to assist Iraqis fighting to retake territory from ISIS militants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t it funny how that mission just creeps up on you. No matter how hard you try not to fight a war, eventually, you have to fight it the way you should have fought it in the first-damn-place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps Times reports that the 26th MEU is deploying more Marines to Iraq from &hellip; <a title=\"26th Marine Expeditionary Unit deploys more Marines to Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64914\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">26th Marine Expeditionary Unit deploys more Marines to Iraq<\/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":[184,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64914","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=64914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64914\/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=64914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}