{"id":82498,"date":"2018-10-25T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82498"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:04","slug":"military-plane-inadvertently-drops-humvee-over-harnett-county-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82498","title":{"rendered":"Military plane inadvertently drops Humvee over Harnett County neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/humveedrop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-82500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/humveedrop-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/humveedrop-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/humveedrop-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/humveedrop-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/humveedrop.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A C-17 military plane dropped a Humvee prematurely over a neighborhood in Harnett County Wednesday afternoon, Fort Bragg officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood is in the town of Cameron. This incident occurred around 1 p.m. during a training exercise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A load of some kind was released early and we&#8217;re looking into how it happened,&#8221; said Michael Novogradac, a spokesman for the USArmy&#8217;s Operational Test Command.<\/p>\n<p>The C-17 aircraft carries supplies and equipment into war zones and, on Wednesday, the special operations team was practicing that type of scenario when the accident happened.<\/p>\n<p>Only two items were aboard the aircraft, which was flying at about 1,500 feet in altitude &#8212; the Humvee and a new heavy drop platform.<\/p>\n<p>About a mile from the drop zone at Fort Bragg, the platform went out the back of the C-17.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything went as planned except for the early release,&#8221; said Fort Bragg spokesperson Tom McCollum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Close&#8221; only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=4549963\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nSource: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/military-plane-drops-humvee-over-harnett-county-neighborhood\/4548646\/\">Military plane inadvertently drops Humvee over Harnett County neighborhood, Fort Bragg officials say | abc11.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A C-17 military plane dropped a Humvee prematurely over a neighborhood in Harnett County Wednesday afternoon, &hellip; <a title=\"Military plane inadvertently drops Humvee over Harnett County neighborhood\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82498\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military plane inadvertently drops Humvee over Harnett County neighborhood<\/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":[232,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82498","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=82498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}