{"id":65036,"date":"2016-03-30T09:14:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65036"},"modified":"2016-03-30T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:14:39","slug":"another-armored-brigade-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65036","title":{"rendered":"Another armored brigade to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=34930\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Last-tanks.jpg\" alt=\"Last tanks\" width=\"823\" height=\"428\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Last-tanks.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Last-tanks-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34929\">Just three years ago<\/a>, we were talking about the last tanks to leave Germany. Since then, the Pentagon changed it&#8217;s collect mind and moved another armored brigade to Europe. The <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_UNITED_STATES_EUROPE_MILITARY?SITE=AP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that yet another brigade is going to be stationed there early next year;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The officials said the Army will announce Wednesday that it will be sending a full set of equipment with the brigade to Europe. Earlier plans had called for the Pentagon to rotate troops into Europe, where they would have used a set of training equipment pre-positioned there.<\/p>\n<p>The new proposal would remove the pre-positioned equipment, send it to be refurbished, and allow the U.S. forces to bring more robust, modern equipment in with them when they deploy. There are about 4,500 soldiers in an armored brigade, along with dozens of heavy vehicles, tanks and other equipment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The picture at the top is of the last US tank to leave Europe, in case you wanted to remember. We kept troops in Europe to prevent a Soviet invasion, and as soon as we leave, the Russians become a threat again. Sort of like the situation in Iraq. While we&#8217;re certainly not the world&#8217;s policemen, but, if not us, who?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just three years ago, we were talking about the last tanks to leave Germany. Since then, &hellip; <a title=\"Another armored brigade to Europe\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65036\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another armored brigade to Europe<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65036","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=65036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}