{"id":81679,"date":"2018-09-09T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81679"},"modified":"2018-09-08T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T01:18:19","slug":"24th-marine-expeditionary-heading-to-norway-for-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81679","title":{"rendered":"24th Marine Expeditionary Heading to Norway for NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/09\/06\/24th-marine-expeditionary-unit-will-head-to-norway-to-join-40000-troops-strong-nato-exercise\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/09\/06\/24th-marine-expeditionary-unit-will-head-to-norway-to-join-40000-troops-strong-nato-exercise\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, are slated to participate in one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/06\/11\/the-real-russia-threat-and-the-corps-pivotal-plan-for-a-european-fight\/\">largest NATO exercises<\/a>\u00a0later this fall hosted by Norway, according to Marine officials.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise, dubbed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/06\/18\/russia-argues-the-corps-beefed-up-presence-in-norway-is-an-attack\/\">Trident Juncture<\/a>, is one of the largest for NATO in more than a decade and will feature nearly 40,000 troops, over one hundred aircraft and dozens of allied ships \u2014 all in close proximity to the Russian border.<\/p>\n<p>But the extent of the 24th MEU\u2019s participation is currently unknown. Marine officials cited operational security concerns and would not provide any further details. \u2013 Article.<\/p>\n<p>Per the article\u2019s author, the presence of several thousands of US Jarheads appearing in Norway for a joint NATO MEU exercise is likely to upset the digestive systems of the Russian people who occupy the highest seats in the Kremlin. That would be Vlad Putin, and whoever his upper level military officers may be at this time.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure they will be watching closely with the best binocs they can get from China. Doesn\u2019t China also make long distance visual equipment for US troops and sailors and GIRines? Maybe we should move manufacture of that stuff home now. I can\u2019t tell, for example, if my glasses are made in Beijing or in the back of the Lenscrafters shop, but I\u2019m sure there is an Oriental connection there somewhere, because plastics!!!<\/p>\n<p>Just glad to know that they announced it so that we know that they know that we know that they know that we know that <em>they know!!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/09\/06\/24th-marine-expeditionary-unit-will-head-to-norway-to-join-40000-troops-strong-nato-exercise\/ Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, are slated to participate in one &hellip; <a title=\"24th Marine Expeditionary Heading to Norway for NATO\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81679\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24th Marine Expeditionary Heading to Norway for NATO<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,184,306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-marine-corps","category-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81679","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}