{"id":68544,"date":"2016-10-22T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68544"},"modified":"2016-10-22T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T12:53:35","slug":"jason-finan-navy-eod-tech-killed-in-mosul-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68544","title":{"rendered":"Jason Finan Navy EOD Tech killed in Mosul assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68546\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jason-Finan1-238x333.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Finan1\" width=\"238\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jason-Finan1-238x333.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jason-Finan1-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Jason-Finan1.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Petty Officer Jason Finan became the first US casualty of the assault on Mosul yesterday in an IED explosion. He was assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3 in Coronado according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=97300\">Navy.mil<\/a>. Finan leaves behind his wife, Chariss, and their 7-year-old son, Christopher, in Imperial Beach.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/military\/sd-me-sailor-killed-20161021-story.html\">San Diego Tribune<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before his death, his decorations included the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with a Combat Valor designation, the Army Commendation Medal, two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, the Army Achievement Medal, two Combat Action Ribbons, the Joint Meritorious Unit Award, the Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Ribbon, the Iraq Campaign Ribbon, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and the NATO Medal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petty Officer Jason Finan became the first US casualty of the assault on Mosul yesterday in &hellip; <a title=\"Jason Finan Navy EOD Tech killed in Mosul assault\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68544\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jason Finan Navy EOD Tech killed in Mosul assault<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68544","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\/68544","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=68544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}