{"id":73327,"date":"2017-07-12T13:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T17:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73327"},"modified":"2017-07-12T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T17:11:25","slug":"national-guard-deploys-to-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73327","title":{"rendered":"National Guard deploys to Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A battalion-sized unit of National Guardsmen from Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, California and New York is training at Grafenwoehr, Germany in preparation for their deployment to Kosovo in support of the NATO mission there, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/europe\/us-soldiers-deploy-to-kosovo-amid-enduring-tensions-1.477572#.WWZVIemQyUk\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Tensions rose in June after Kosovo\u2019s elections, in which Albanian nationalist parties made significant gains. Meanwhile, a Serbian political party loyal to Belgrade won a majority of votes among the Serb minority, which accounts for about 10 percent of Kosovo\u2019s people.<\/p>\n<p>Local Serbs, who were once furious at NATO for defeating and ousting Serbian troops in the 1999 war, now insist that the 4,500-strong international force must remain in Kosovo in order to protect their community. NATO, which remains the region\u2019s ultimate security guarantor, recently vetoed a plan by Kosovo\u2019s government to transform its security forces into a regular army \u2014 a move the Serbs strongly oppose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the article points out, the Kosovo mission has been going on for 18 years with no end in sight. <\/p>\n<p>The US Guardsmen are scheduled to assume the mission on July 19th and it will last for nine months. Because we don&#8217;t have enough going on in the world, we have to take out the Euros&#8217; trash for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A battalion-sized unit of National Guardsmen from Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, California and New York &hellip; <a title=\"National Guard deploys to Kosovo\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73327\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Guard deploys to Kosovo<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73327","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=73327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}