{"id":66120,"date":"2016-06-03T07:39:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66120"},"modified":"2016-06-03T07:39:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T11:39:14","slug":"a-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66120","title":{"rendered":"A bad day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an especially tough day to survive in the military yesterday. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/06\/02\/politics\/military-plane-crash\/\">CNN<\/a>, an Air Force Thunderbirds pilot safely ejected from his F-16 jet over Colorado, while a Navy Blue Angels F-18 pilot wasn&#8217;t so lucky over Tennessee.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pilot of a Blue Angels jet was killed Thursday during practice for a weekend air show, hours after a Thunderbirds F-16 crashed following a flyover at the U.S. Air Force Academy commencement ceremony attended by the President, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy said the Blue Angels pilot died from injuries suffered in the crash in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbirds pilot safely ejected before the plane went down in Colorado, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile at Fort Hood, Texas, flash flooding took the lives of at least five soldiers according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/kdhnews.com\/news\/local\/high-water-rescue-on-fort-hood\/article_464e7ea8-28e8-11e6-b3f0-87c46dcca784.html\">Killeen Daily Herald<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five Fort Hood soldiers were killed and four others were missing Thursday after the armored vehicle they were in overturned at a low-water crossing during a training mission.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Three soldiers were in stable condition Thursday evening at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center on post. They were rescued from the water near the vehicle and immediately transported to the Coryell Memorial Healthcare System in Gatesville before their transfer to Darnall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Flash flooding was one of many reasons I hated Fort Hood.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder that training for war can be as deadly as the war itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an especially tough day to survive in the military yesterday. According to CNN, an &hellip; <a title=\"A bad day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66120\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A bad day<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,232,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-army-news","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66120","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=66120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}