{"id":70566,"date":"2017-02-27T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70566"},"modified":"2017-02-27T08:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:30:18","slug":"last-pathfinder-unit-deactivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70566","title":{"rendered":"Last Pathfinder unit deactivated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jon the Mechanic and Bobo send us links to the news <\/a>that the Amy’s last pathfinder unit was deactivated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina;<\/p>\n

\nCapt. Steven J. Orbon, the commander of F Company, 2nd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, and Herbst, the company first sergeant, cased the unit guidon as a final act for the 82nd Airborne Division’s pathfinder company.<\/p>\n

“For many, today is a sad one,” Orbon said to an audience that included family, friends and veteran pathfinders whose service dated to 1957.<\/p>\n

The deactivation was part of a larger Army transformation that saw other pathfinder units shutter last year and also marked the end of other small and specialized units known as long-range surveillance companies. But it won’t end the pathfinder story, the captain said.<\/p>\n

“It is simply the closing of a chapter,” Orbon said.<\/p>\n

That’s because no matter how advanced technology becomes, or how different the mission troops are called to perform, he said the military will need soldiers like those last pathfinders on display Friday afternoon at Fort Bragg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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