{"id":68777,"date":"2016-11-05T07:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T11:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68777"},"modified":"2016-11-04T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T19:53:17","slug":"falcons-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68777","title":{"rendered":"Falcons to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68778\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/325.jpg\" alt=\"325\" width=\"198\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68778\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/177761\/\">The Army<\/a> has announced that the 82d Airborne Division&#8217;s 2d Brigade Combat Team (the Falcon Brigade) is making preparations to relieve the 101st Airborne Division&#8217;s 2d Brigade Combat Team in Iraq;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The 2nd Brigade Combat Team is highly trained, disciplined, and fit,&#8221; said Col. James &#8220;Pat&#8221; Work, commander 2nd Brigade Combat Team. &#8220;Readiness is our top priority; our paratroopers are prepared for this deployment in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. Our team looks forward to this important mission and our opportunity to assist our Iraqi partners.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The deployment will consist of about 1700 paratroopers, and my old unit 1\/325th Airborne Infantry Regiment. They differ from the &#8220;Parachute Infantry Regiments&#8221; in that during World War II, the 325th were Glider-borne Infantry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army has announced that the 82d Airborne Division&#8217;s 2d Brigade Combat Team (the Falcon Brigade) &hellip; <a title=\"Falcons to Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68777\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falcons to Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68777","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\/68777","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=68777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}