{"id":74105,"date":"2017-08-21T07:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T11:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74105"},"modified":"2017-08-21T07:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T11:11:48","slug":"uss-john-mccain-collides-with-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74105","title":{"rendered":"USS JOHN MCCAIN collides with tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74106\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74106\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/300px-USS_John_S._McCain_DDG-56-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74106\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/08\/20\/uss-john-s-mccain-collides-with-merchant-ship-in-pacific.html\">Fox News<\/a>, 10 sailors are missing and five more killed when the Yokosuka, Japan-based USS JOHN MCCAIN collided with the commercial tanker Alnic MC near Singapore;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Authorities said four of those injured were medically evacuated by a Singapore navy helicopter. They suffered non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue efforts were launched in coordination with local authorities, the Navy said. Initial reports indicated the warship sustained damage to its port side aft, the left rear of the ship.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred at 6:24 a.m. Japan Standard Time. There is a massive search and rescue underway, involving tug boats out of Singapore and helicopters. An MV-22 Osprey is expected to arrive soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A photo of the damage;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74109\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/McCain-damage-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/McCain-damage-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/McCain-damage-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/McCain-damage-500x209.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/McCain-damage.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, 10 sailors are missing and five more killed when the Yokosuka, Japan-based &hellip; <a title=\"USS JOHN MCCAIN collides with tanker\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74105\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS JOHN MCCAIN collides with tanker<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74105","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=74105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}