{"id":77416,"date":"2018-01-29T08:14:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77416"},"modified":"2018-01-29T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:14:42","slug":"a-10s-return-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77416","title":{"rendered":"A-10s return to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55373\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt-500x242.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/A10-Thunderbolt.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/01\/27\/with-first-a-10-strikes-in-afghanistan-marines-call-in-the-heat-on-the-taliban\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=ebb%2001.29.2018&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">Marine Corps Times<\/a> reports that the A-10 Warthog was employed by Marine Corps advisors in Afghanistan for the first time since the aircraft was pulled out of that war in 2014 by the previous administration;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Marine task force commander called in for approval of the strike, while a U.S. Army drone marked the target. It was a \u201cjoint effort in support of our ANDSF ground force partners,\u201d the air officer said.<\/p>\n<p>The return of the A-10 is a part of plan by Gen. John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, to bolster air and strike assets in theater to support U.S. advisers as they begin to embed with partner forces close to the front lines of combat.<\/p>\n<p>The new rotation of Marines with Task Force Southwest and the pending deployment of the Army\u2019s 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, will be the first units authorized to advise at the Kandak, or battalion level.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Warthogs were freed up from operations in Syria and Iraq with the collapse of ISIS and then sent to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps Times reports that the A-10 Warthog was employed by Marine Corps advisors in &hellip; <a title=\"A-10s return to Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77416\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A-10s return to Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77416","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=77416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}