{"id":91485,"date":"2019-10-03T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91485"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:51","slug":"22-soldiers-hurt-after-parachuting-into-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91485","title":{"rendered":"22 Soldiers Hurt After Parachuting Into Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 soldiers were injured in a Wednesday night parachuting exercise in Mississippi when they missed a designated drop zone and landed instead in a group of trees, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Of those hurt, 15 were treated at the scene by medics and seven were taken to a local hospital, Army spokesman John Pennell told local WDAM-TV. None of the injuries was life-threatening, he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"res766713635\" class=\"bucketwrap statichtml\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSpartanBrigade%2Fposts%2F2414405345262387&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The exercise, part of Operation Arctic Anvil, was taking place at Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg and involved soldiers from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/166618\/4th_brigade_combat_team_airborne\">4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne)<\/a>, normally stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Camp Shelby commander Col. Bobby Ginn was quoted by WDAM as saying the soldiers parachuted from a C-130 aircraft and that wind blew them away from their intended drop zone.<\/p>\n<p>Some 650 soldiers from the Alaska contingent are involved in Operation Arctic Anvil, which is slated to last 10 days, according to a post on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpartanBrigade\/\">Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0of the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMzPujG1IeQ\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/03\/766687483\/22-soldiers-hurt-after-parachuting-into-trees-during-mississippi-training-exerci\">Source: NPR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 soldiers were injured in a Wednesday night parachuting exercise in Mississippi when they &hellip; <a title=\"22 Soldiers Hurt After Parachuting Into Trees\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=91485\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">22 Soldiers Hurt After Parachuting Into Trees<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":78794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91485","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=91485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91486,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91485\/revisions\/91486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}