{"id":79979,"date":"2018-06-14T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79979"},"modified":"2018-06-14T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:42:05","slug":"uss-hue-city-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79979","title":{"rendered":"USS Hue City saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79980\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/USS-Hue-City-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/USS-Hue-City-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/USS-Hue-City-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/USS-Hue-City-466x333.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/USS-Hue-City.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/03\/28\/cruiser-hue-city-rescues-fishermen-off-georgia\/\">Navy Times<\/a>, USS Hue City (CG-66), a Ticonderoga class-guided-missile cruiser,  responded to a Coast Guard request for help off the coast of Georgia to rescue the crew of a 42-foot fishing vessel Barbara Lynn;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It only took the cruiser about 20 minutes to arrive at the vessel\u2019s last reported position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crew of the USS Hue City&#8230;when within approximately 1 mile of the last known position of the distress, reported seeing orange flares, flashing lights and located a raft with three fishermen aboard surrounded by debris,\u201d the Coast Guard release said.<\/p>\n<p>Hu\u00e9 City\u2019s rescue swimmer, Sonar Technician (Surface) 3rd Class Nathan Andrade, a native of Stockton, California, swam to the life raft to assist as Hue City maneuvered nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Andrade then harnessed each fisherman, while the crew lifted the survivors on board using litters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rescue took just two hours to complete and there were no reported injuries as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to AW1Ed for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Navy Times, USS Hue City (CG-66), a Ticonderoga class-guided-missile cruiser, responded to a &hellip; <a title=\"USS Hue City saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79979\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Hue City saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy","category-search-and-rescue-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79979","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=79979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}