{"id":77068,"date":"2018-01-09T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T20:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77068"},"modified":"2018-01-09T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T20:16:40","slug":"spc-robert-w-jones-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77068","title":{"rendered":"Spc. Robert W. Jones passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us-soldier-dies-while-on-mission-in-kosovo-1.505830\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, Specialist Robert W. Jones passed away while he was deployed at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo. Jones was a dog handler with the 709th Military Police Battalion, based at Grafenwoehr, Germany.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Army did not provide any details about the circumstances surrounding Jones\u2019 death.<\/p>\n<p>Jones joined the Army in 2015 and has served with the 18th Military Police Brigade since April 2016, according to USAREUR. For his service in Kosovo, Jones was awarded the NATO Medal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/army-dog-handler-dies-serving-kosovo-article-1.3746238\">New York Daily News<\/a>, Jones was from Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/198891\/us_army_europe_soldier_death_in_kosovo\">Army.mil<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jones&#8217; awards and decorations include the Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, Army Overseas Service Ribbon, NATO Medal (Kosovo) and German Marksmanship Badge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stars &#038; Stripes, Specialist Robert W. Jones passed away while he was deployed at &hellip; <a title=\"Spc. Robert W. Jones passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77068\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spc. Robert W. Jones passes<\/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":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77068","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=77068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}