{"id":75214,"date":"2017-10-08T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75214"},"modified":"2017-10-08T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T12:59:10","slug":"fourth-soldier-killed-in-niger-ambush-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75214","title":{"rendered":"Fourth soldier killed in Niger ambush identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/La-David-Johnson-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/La-David-Johnson-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/La-David-Johnson-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/La-David-Johnson-226x333.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/La-David-Johnson.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The fourth soldier killed in an ambush last week near the Niger\/Mali frontier was identified by the Department of Defense as Sergeant La David Johnson, a 25-year-old from of Miami Gardens, Florida, assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/4th-american-killed-in-niger-ambush-identified-1.491507#.WdofZzBryUk\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Defense officials had disclosed the deaths of three other soldiers killed in the same attack. They were identified Friday as Staff Sgts. Bryan C. Black, Jeremiah W. Johnson and Dustin M. Wright. All were assigned to Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 3rd Special Forces Group. Black and Wright were Green Berets.<\/p>\n<p>News of the fourth soldier\u2019s death had been withheld until Friday, in hopes he would be found alive. Nigerian soldiers discovered Johnson\u2019s body on Friday, following a search of the area. U.S. personnel recovered his remains the same day, the Pentagon said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth soldier killed in an ambush last week near the Niger\/Mali frontier was identified by &hellip; <a title=\"Fourth soldier killed in Niger ambush identified\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75214\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fourth soldier killed in Niger ambush identified<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75214","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\/75214","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=75214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}