{"id":68309,"date":"2016-10-05T09:06:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68309"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:06:51","slug":"uss-george-washington-prepares-for-matthew-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68309","title":{"rendered":"USS George Washington prepares for Matthew relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68310\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/USS_George_Washington_CVN-73_001-466x333.jpg\" alt=\"081119-N-8842M-182\" width=\"466\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/USS_George_Washington_CVN-73_001-466x333.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/USS_George_Washington_CVN-73_001-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/USS_George_Washington_CVN-73_001-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mick sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.13newsnow.com\/news\/military\/uss-george-washington-deploys-for-hurricane-matthew-relief\/328913754\">13 News Now<\/a> which reports that the Navy is gearing up for disaster relief in the Caribbean. USS George Washington and USS Comfort are on their way to Haiti in response to that government&#8217;s request for assistance;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Southern Command has also redeployed nine Marine helicopters and 100 personnel from Honduras to Grand Cayman to prepare for relief operations, according to a SOUTCOM release.<\/p>\n<p>Members from Joint Task Force-Bravo and Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Southern Command boarded CH-53E Super Stallions, CH-47 Chinooks, and UH-60L Blackhawks and shipped out early Tuesday, according to the release, and are standing by for \u201cheavy-lift support,\u201d according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur country is a compassionate nation with a long history of helping countries impacted by natural disasters like this,\u201d said SOUTHCOM boss Adm. Kurt Tidd in the release. \u201cWe\u2019re ready to support USAID, if needed, to save lives, alleviate human suffering and provide aid to those afflicted by this storm.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us a link to 13 News Now which reports that the Navy is gearing &hellip; <a title=\"USS George Washington prepares for Matthew relief\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68309\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS George Washington prepares for Matthew relief<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68309","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=68309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}