{"id":92101,"date":"2019-10-23T06:43:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T10:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92101"},"modified":"2019-10-23T06:43:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T10:43:06","slug":"marine-barracks-bombing-in-beirut-36-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92101","title":{"rendered":"Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut &#8211; 36 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1920px-Beirutbarr.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-92102 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1920px-Beirutbarr-398x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1920px-Beirutbarr-398x333.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1920px-Beirutbarr-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1920px-Beirutbarr-768x642.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1920px-Beirutbarr.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today marks 36 years since the US Marine Barracks headquarters building was bombed in Beirut Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"d4rm1-0-1\">At 0622 on October 23, 1983 a suicide truck loaded with equivalent of 12,000 pounds of explosives destroyed headquarters building of BLT 1\/8 at Beirut International Airport.\u00a0 Almost simultaneous suicide attack destroyed building occupied by French paratroopers. U.S. casualties: 241 killed, and around 100 wounded.\u00a0 French casualties: 58 killed.\u00a0 Marine replacement airlifts,via 13 C-141 aircraft, begin the same day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. casualties consisted of 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and 3 soldiers.\u00a0 Many of their faces can be seen here at the following link:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beirut-memorial.org\/memory\/brtnames.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.beirut-memorial.org\/memory\/brtnames.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Remembrance ceremony is held every year at the Beirut Memorial in Jacksonville North Carolina just outside Camp Lejeune.\u00a0 It will be livecast here at 1030:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/webcast\/21880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/webcast\/21880<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The special ceremony honors the fallen service members and survivors who served in Lebanon from 1958 to 1984 and in Grenada. Lt. Gen. Brian D. Beaudreault, II Marine Expeditionary Force commanding general, Lt. Col. Anthony C. Johnston, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment commanding officer, and retired Gen. Alfred M. Gray, Jr., the 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps, will deliver remarks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks 36 years since the US Marine Barracks headquarters building was bombed in Beirut Lebanon. &hellip; <a title=\"Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut &#8211; 36 Years Ago\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92101\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut &#8211; 36 Years Ago<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":92102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,308,331,119,141,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army","category-iran","category-marines","category-navy","category-reunions","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92101","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92103,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92101\/revisions\/92103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}