{"id":70874,"date":"2017-03-15T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70874"},"modified":"2017-03-15T13:37:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:37:41","slug":"three-airmen-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70874","title":{"rendered":"Three airmen killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=70875\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/u-28a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/u-28a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/u-28a-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/u-28a.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us the link to a story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/03\/15\/three-airmen-die-after-specops-plane-crashes-in-new-mexico.html\">Fox News<\/a> that reports the sad news that three airmen were killed in a U-28 single-engine turboprop aircraft which crashed during a training flight in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The airmen were assigned to the 318th Special Operations Squadron, an operational flying squadron part of the 27th Special Operations Wing, Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The 318th was activated in 2008 under Air Force Special Operations Command to provide &#8220;battlefield mobility for our special operations forces,&#8221; according to then-Col. Timothy Leahy, the former wing commander. The unit is tasked to &#8220;fly a variety of light and medium aircraft known as Non-Standard Aviation,&#8221; according to a service release. The squadron operates PC-12 aircraft &#8212; designated as the U-28A in the Air Force &#8212; for intra-theater airlift missions, the release said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because training for war can be as deadly as the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us the link to a story in Fox News that reports the sad news &hellip; <a title=\"Three airmen killed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70874\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three airmen killed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70874","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=70874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}