{"id":65372,"date":"2016-04-22T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65372"},"modified":"2016-04-22T08:17:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:17:22","slug":"sfc-terry-lee-gilden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65372","title":{"rendered":"SFC Terry Lee Gilden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65373\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SFC-Terry-Lee-Gilden.jpg\" alt=\"SFC Terry Lee Gilden\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65373\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Dave Hardin reminds us that SFC Terry Lee Gilden who was the first Delta operator to be killed in action against an armed enemy on April 18, 1983 was killed 33 years ago this week. He was assigned to the personal security detail for the State Department in Beirut when a delivery van loaded with about 2,000 pounds of explosives crashed into the US Embassy there. 17 Americans died; among them a Marine guard and three Army soldiers. In total, 63 people were killed in the blast. The attack was blamed on Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah militiamen.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65374\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65374\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SFC-Terry-Lee-Gilden-stone-444x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SFC-Terry-Lee-Gilden-stone-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SFC-Terry-Lee-Gilden-stone-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SFC-Terry-Lee-Gilden-stone-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SFC-Terry-Lee-Gilden-stone.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Hardin reminds us that SFC Terry Lee Gilden who was the first Delta operator to &hellip; <a title=\"SFC Terry Lee Gilden\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65372\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SFC Terry Lee Gilden<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65372","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\/65372","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=65372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}