{"id":78691,"date":"2018-04-04T08:41:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78691"},"modified":"2018-04-04T08:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:41:14","slug":"4-marines-feared-dead-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78691","title":{"rendered":"4 Marines feared dead in helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=78692\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78692\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stallion-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stallion.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stallion.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stallion.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stallion.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mick sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/04\/04\/4-marines-feared-dead-in-helicopter-crash-near-us-mexico-border.html\">Fox News<\/a> that reports a Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in San Diego crashed near the Mexican border with California and that 4 Marines are feared dead as a result;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Marine Corps was withholding the identities of those killed for 24 hours until next of kin notifications are complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe status of all four is presumed dead pending positive identification,\u201d read a statement from the aviation unit.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Marine Corps aviation told Congress in November his CH-53 fleet was \u2018inadequate,\u2019 noting he only had 143 out of 200 required helicopters on the flight line and of those only 37 percent could fly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us a link to Fox News that reports a Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in San Diego crashed near the Mexican border with California and that 4 Marines are feared dead as a result; The Marine Corps was withholding the identities of those killed for 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stallion.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ktd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78691","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}