{"id":18206,"date":"2010-03-25T01:01:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18206"},"modified":"2010-03-25T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T06:23:45","slug":"the-end-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18206","title":{"rendered":"The end is near."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash1\/hs477.ash1\/26162_112309882117192_100000145431507_281822_6926722_n.jpg\" title=\"HMMWV\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well looks like the HMMWV is officially being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/24\/humvee-orders-about-to-end-have-you-met-the-mrap\/\">phased out <\/a>with the last orders being put in for this year. But since the HMMWV has been in service for so long I thought it would be fitting to write something about what I remember about it.<\/p>\n<p>I have been in the soft shell versions, to the ambulances to the Up-armored ones. They have taken me all over Fort Benning Georgia, to Fort Irvin California to  the different bases in Iraq. I sat as a passenger in every seat and even drive them.  I even got a chance to ride in a Iraqi HMMWV. All in all a lot of memories but over all a long overdue for being replaced. <\/p>\n<p>Also I am sure that there are other stories that our readers willing to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well looks like the HMMWV is officially being phased out with the last orders being put in for this year. But since the HMMWV has been in service for so long I thought it would be fitting to write something about what I remember about it. I have been in the soft shell versions, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-4JE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}