{"id":77626,"date":"2018-02-10T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T13:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77626"},"modified":"2018-02-10T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T13:27:16","slug":"sgt-maj-samuel-m-mcallister-dies-in-parachute-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77626","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Maj. Samuel M. McAllister dies in parachute accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77627\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sgt.-Maj.-Samuel-M.-McAllister-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sgt.-Maj.-Samuel-M.-McAllister-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sgt.-Maj.-Samuel-M.-McAllister-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sgt.-Maj.-Samuel-M.-McAllister-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sgt.-Maj.-Samuel-M.-McAllister-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sgt.-Maj.-Samuel-M.-McAllister.jpg 1173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tim sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinalcentral.com\/casa_grande_dispatch\/area_news\/army-ranger-killed-in-eloy-parachute-accident\/article_b27f57d7-a74b-5a11-a460-fb487935572a.html\">the sad news<\/a> that Sergeant Major Samuel M. McAllister died in a parachute accident late last month, just days after Marine Corporal Alejandro Romero of the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, died in a similar accident.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Sgt. Maj. Samuel M. McAllister, 45, died on Jan. 24 in Eloy.<\/p>\n<p>A USASOC spokesman told the Army Times that McAllister was posthumously promoted from master sergeant to sergeant major.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2018\/02\/08\/army-ranger-died-during-free-fall-training-in-january\/\">The Army Times<\/a> reports that the accident is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim sends us the sad news that Sergeant Major Samuel M. McAllister died in a parachute &hellip; <a title=\"Sgt. Maj. Samuel M. McAllister dies in parachute accident\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77626\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sgt. Maj. Samuel M. McAllister dies in parachute accident<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77626","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\/77626","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=77626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}