{"id":88724,"date":"2019-07-07T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88724"},"modified":"2019-07-07T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:25:37","slug":"two-birds-one-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88724","title":{"rendered":"Two Birds, One Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Army diver with the 569th Engineer Dive Detachment surfaces after doing an inspection during training at the Port of Tacoma, Wash., in 2016. (Spc. Adeline Witherspoon, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)<\/h6>\n

The Army’s dive teams have been presented with a new mission, one that makes a bucketload of common sense.<\/p>\n

They need purpose-oriented training and the state of Washington needs divers to go into the San Juan Islands area to remove derelict nets that endanger wildlife including seabirds, fish and marine mammals.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/07\/06\/heres-what-army-divers-are-going-to-haul-from-the-deep-water-in-washington-state\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 \u00a0Army divers were at Utah Beach during the 1944 landings in Normandy, they deployed to Kuwait for Operation Desert Storm and they worked to repair ports in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.<\/p>\n

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Their challenge now is to reach fishing nets more than 105 feet down along rocky terrain off the San Juan Islands. They\u2019re tasked with removing the fishing nets during the Army Deepwater Derelict Net Removal project July 8-28.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The project will give Army divers a chance to train for deep-water diving operations, this time working off a contracted vessel, the release said. The mission will be part of the Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training Program. – Article<\/p>\n

This works for me, and I hope for marine wildlife, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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