{"id":74088,"date":"2017-08-19T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74088"},"modified":"2017-08-19T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T13:15:09","slug":"ssg-aaron-r-butler-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74088","title":{"rendered":"SSG Aaron R. Butler passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74089\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74089\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aaron-R.-Butler-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aaron-R.-Butler-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Aaron-R.-Butler.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Releases\/News-Release-View\/Article\/1282180\/dod-identifies-army-casualty\/source\/GovDelivery\/\">Department of Defense<\/a> reports that Staff Sergeant Aaron R. Butler was killed in an IED explosion while he was battling ISIS in Afghanistan this week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Defense announced [yesterday] the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Freedom\u2019s Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p>Staff Sgt. Aaron R. Butler, 27, of Monticello, Utah, died Aug. 16 in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations. The incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Butler was assigned to the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Camp Williams, Utah. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense reports that Staff Sergeant Aaron R. Butler was killed in an IED &hellip; <a title=\"SSG Aaron R. Butler passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74088\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SSG Aaron R. Butler passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74088","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=74088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}