{"id":77578,"date":"2018-02-07T09:51:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77578"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T15:06:25","slug":"1st-sgt-nicholas-s-amsberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77578","title":{"rendered":"1st Sgt. Nicholas S. Amsberry passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77579\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1st-Sgt.-Nicholas-S.-Amsberry-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1st-Sgt.-Nicholas-S.-Amsberry-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1st-Sgt.-Nicholas-S.-Amsberry-286x333.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1st-Sgt.-Nicholas-S.-Amsberry.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us-soldier-found-dead-near-train-station-in-germany-1.510304\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>reports that the body of First Sergeant Nicholas S. Amsberry was discovered near the train station in Parsberg, Germany which serves the Joint Multinational Readiness Center at Hohenfels training area.<\/p>\n<p>The Mesa, Ariz., native was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, out of Fort Riley, Kansas and he was on a nine-month deployment to participate in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Special-Reports\/0218_Atlantic-Resolve\/\">Operation Atlantic Resolve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/mesa-breaking\/2018\/02\/06\/army-sergeant-mesa-found-dead-near-train-station-germany\/310508002\/\">AZCentral<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amsberry&#8217;s cause of death has not been specified and is currently under investigation by German police and the U.S. Army, according to [Major Jonathon] Knapton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no indication that an additional party or foul play was involved at this time,&#8221; Knapton said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of 1st Sgt. Nicholas Amsberry,&#8221; said Lt. Col. Peter Moon, commander, 1st CAB. &#8220;We know the death of a family member is an immeasurable loss.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1st of the 18th Infantry was the last unit I was assigned to when I retired while  they were part of the Third Brigade, 24th Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Georgia. I know the Parsberg railhead like the back of my hand. It seems like half of my time in Germany was spent going to and leaving Hohenfels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripesreports that the body of First Sergeant Nicholas S. Amsberry was discovered near the &hellip; <a title=\"1st Sgt. Nicholas S. Amsberry passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77578\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1st Sgt. Nicholas S. Amsberry passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77578","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\/77578","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=77578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}