{"id":85516,"date":"2019-03-10T13:15:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85516"},"modified":"2019-03-10T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:25:41","slug":"the-prowler-is-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85516","title":{"rendered":"The Prowler Is Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85517\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-85517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2-500x333.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USMA EA-6B Prowler over Afghanistan (Photo by Senior Airman James Richardson\/USAF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After supporting combat operations for the Marine Corps in nearly every conflict throughout the past 40 years, the Marines\u2019 electronic attack aircraft, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/05\/16\/the-corps-is-down-to-one-final-ea-6b-prowler-squadron\/\">EA-6B<\/a> Prowler, will fly its final flight mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>A deactivation ceremony for the Corps\u2019 final Prowler squadron, Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2, or VMAQ-2 is set to be held Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Some retired Prowlers are making their way to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, commonly referred to as \u201cthe boneyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a few of the EA-6Bs will rest at the air museum in Texas and the Smithsonian near our nation\u2019s capital. \u2013 Article<\/p>\n<p>The full article is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/03\/08\/the-saltiest-warfighter-in-the-marine-corps-the-ea-6b-prowler-retires\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/03\/08\/the-saltiest-warfighter-in-the-marine-corps-the-ea-6b-prowler-retires\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Per the article, the last two official Prowler flights will be March 12 at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas and March 14 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at the National Air and Space Museum in Virginia, said 1st Lt. Samuel Stephenson, a spokesman with 2 Marine Air Wing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After supporting combat operations for the Marine Corps in nearly every conflict throughout the past 40 &hellip; <a title=\"The Prowler Is Retiring\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85516\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Prowler Is Retiring<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85516","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=85516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85518,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85516\/revisions\/85518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}