{"id":75003,"date":"2017-09-28T09:16:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75003"},"modified":"2017-09-28T09:16:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:16:29","slug":"more-troops-to-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75003","title":{"rendered":"More troops to Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has been sending troops by the thousands to Puerto Rico to help with the island&#8217;s recovery from Hurricane Maria. Hundreds of Marines from the USS KEARSARGE, an amphibious assault ship, have been busy clearing the ten airfields suitable for the heavy air traffic bringing relief from the US. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pentagon-deploys-army-general-and-more-troops-to-lead-hurricane-response-on-puerto-rico-1.489835#.WczzrdFryUk\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The military aims to fly about 10 planes per hour into the region Wednesday to provide relief. Only three to six aircraft had been able land each hour previously, Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of Puerto Rico remained without power Wednesday and nearly half of its inhabitants did not have access to drinking water, according to the Pentagon. The military had helped restore some level of power to 59 of the island\u2019s 69 hospitals by Wednesday, but most of them remained unable to provide advanced care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sixteen helicopters have arrived, eight from Fort Campbell, Kentucky and eight more from Fort Bragg, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the military shipped about 350 satellite telephones to aid people in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, many of whom have been unable to communicate with family members and friends for nearly a week, Davis said. Cell phone service remains down for about 95 percent of Puerto Rico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The island is also largely without power and more than half of Puerto Ricans are without potable water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has been sending troops by the thousands to Puerto Rico to help with the &hellip; <a title=\"More troops to Puerto Rico\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75003\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More troops to Puerto Rico<\/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":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75003","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=75003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}