{"id":59823,"date":"2015-05-15T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59823"},"modified":"2015-05-15T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T13:35:35","slug":"update-on-lost-usmc-helicopter-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59823","title":{"rendered":"Update on Lost USMC Helicopter in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USMC UH-1 helicopter that was missing in Nepal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/05\/15\/nepal-says-wreckage-missing-us-marine-helicopter-found\/\"><i>has been located approximately 15 miles from the town of Charikot<\/i><\/a>.  Regrettably, the aircraft appears to have crashed and burned.  <\/p>\n<p>Three sets of remains have been recovered so far.  Though search and recovery operations continue, at this point survivors from the crash are not expected.<\/p>\n<p>The eight personnel were on board the aircraft at the time of loss \u2013 2 Nepalese soldiers and 6 US Marines.  At the time of its loss, the aircraft was participating in the delivery of relief supplies to Charikot in the aftermath of the recent Nepal earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, my brothers in arms.   May God comfort your surviving family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USMC UH-1 helicopter that was missing in Nepal has been located approximately 15 miles from the town of Charikot. Regrettably, the aircraft appears to have crashed and burned. Three sets of remains have been recovered so far. Though search and recovery operations continue, at this point survivors from the crash are not expected. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-fyT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}