{"id":80142,"date":"2018-06-23T15:28:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T19:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80142"},"modified":"2018-06-23T15:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T19:28:59","slug":"spc-calyn-mclemore-passes-during-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80142","title":{"rendered":"SPC Calyn McLemore passes during training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80143\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80143\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Calyn-McLemore-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Calyn-McLemore-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Calyn-McLemore.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>AW1Ed sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/06\/23\/missing-alabama-soldier-found-dead-at-camp-blanding.html\">Fox News<\/a> which reports the sad news that Army Reserve Specialist Calyn McLemore passed away while he was engaged in a Land Navigation Course in Alabama.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Searchers have discovered the body of an Alabama Army Reserves soldier who was reported missing during a training exercise at Camp Blanding in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The search began when Spc. Calyn McLemore failed to return from the exercise as scheduled Wednesday, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported Friday evening that the body was found in the woods and that the cause of death hadn\u2019t been determined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/news\/20180622\/massive-camp-blanding-search-ends-with-missing-soldier-found-dead\">Florida Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McLemore was with about 70 other soldiers on a course designed to test their navigation skills through heavy vegetation. Participants are given a map, compass, protractor, pencil and coordinates, according to National Guard information about land navigation courses.<\/p>\n<p>[Sheriff\u2019s Office Sgt. Keith] Smith said the soldiers work the course individually, although they may come across each other as they navigate the grid. The terrain can be grueling, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd with all the rain that we have had, and it\u2019s a kind of swampy area anyway &#8230; waist-high to chest-high swamp, mud and water,\u201d Smith said. \u201d&#8230; It\u2019s taken [our searchers] a lot to get through there and we have to make sure we keep our guys hydrated. It is a meticulous and methodical search.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office said \u201cthere\u2019s nothing that gives us any indication\u201d that McLemore might have just run away, nor that any foul play has occurred. It was still believed the Alabama soldier got off course. They were also concerned about some of the wildlife he might encounter, said Smith, who has trained at the camp himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A reminder that training for war can be as deadly as the war itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us a link to Fox News which reports the sad news that Army Reserve &hellip; <a title=\"SPC Calyn McLemore passes during training\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80142\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPC Calyn McLemore passes during training<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80142","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=80142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}