{"id":80986,"date":"2018-08-05T08:19:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T12:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80986"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:50","slug":"sgt-maj-christopher-nelms-killed-in-training-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80986","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Maj. Christopher Nelms killed in training accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sgtmajnelms.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sgtmajnelms-500x309.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sgtmajnelms-500x309.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sgtmajnelms-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sgtmajnelms-768x474.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sgtmajnelms.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reported by Yahoo News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Army Special Operations Command, which exercises administrative control of Delta Force, did not announce Nelms\u2019s death, but confirmed it when contacted by Yahoo News. \u201cOne service member died as a result of a free-fall training incident on June 27, 2018, in Laurinburg, N.C.,\u201d said Lt. Col. Robert Bockholt, the command spokesman, in an email response to questions from Yahoo News.\u00a0Nelms \u201creceived initial medical treatment for his injuries but unfortunately died at the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nelms was twice awarded the Silver Star, the military\u2019s third-highest award for valor, during a 28-year Army career that he began as an infantryman before moving to the Army National Guard\u2019s 19th Special Forces Group. He returned to active duty in 2008 and was selected for Delta, with whom he deployed six times to Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their whole story is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/soldier-secret-unit-dies-training-accident-202109847.html\">HERE<\/a> and the Army Times Article is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2018\/08\/03\/army-delta-force-sergeant-major-dies-in-free-fall-parachute-training\/?utm_campaign=Socialflow&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported by Yahoo News: U.S. Army Special Operations Command, which exercises administrative control of Delta Force, &hellip; <a title=\"Sgt. Maj. Christopher Nelms killed in training accident\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80986\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sgt. Maj. Christopher Nelms killed in training accident<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80986","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}