{"id":17566,"date":"2012-04-30T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17566"},"modified":"2012-04-29T23:14:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T02:14:34","slug":"us-servicemembers-serve-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/us-servicemembers-serve-orphans\/","title":{"rendered":"US Servicemembers Serve Orphans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As has been routinely noted, members of the US military frequently sacrifice even their scarce free time to serve those less fortunate around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Sailors and Marines helped the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/87524\/marines-sailors-help-orphanage-while-port-albania\">Bethany Orphanage in Albania<\/a>, a trip coordinated by Navy Chaplains <!--more-->(Lt) Jeff Augustin and William Gritton.\u00a0 In fact, more than twice as many volunteered for the community support event as could be accommodated.<\/p>\n<p>Marines and Sailors in Romania <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/87383\/marines-show-orphaned-children-another-side-corps\">teamed with United Hands Romania<\/a> to serve 250 orphans in three different locations.<\/p>\n<p>Airmen at Charleston Air Force Base volunteered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/87389\/airmen-assist-local-boys-home\">to serve at Eagle Harbor Ranch<\/a> in South Carolina, which shelter boys who were orphaned or abused.\u00a0 The Ammo flight has hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for the boys and even individually mentors those at the shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As has been routinely noted, members of the US military frequently sacrifice even their scarce free time to serve those less fortunate around the world. A group of Sailors and Marines helped the Bethany Orphanage in Albania, a trip coordinated by Navy Chaplains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3210,3216,3209,5284,2760,3215,3211,2,2368,3214,3213,3212],"class_list":["post-17566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-albania","tag-ammo","tag-bethany-orphanage","tag-chaplain","tag-charleston-air-force-base","tag-eagle-harbor-ranch","tag-jeff-augustin","tag-military","tag-orphanage","tag-romania","tag-united-hands","tag-william-gritton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}