{"id":19554,"date":"2012-09-17T01:19:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T04:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19554"},"modified":"2012-09-17T01:19:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T04:19:21","slug":"us-fighter-aircraft-destroyed-in-afghan-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/us-fighter-aircraft-destroyed-in-afghan-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"US Fighter Aircraft Destroyed in Afghan Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan insurgents dressed in US Army uniforms broke the lines at Camp Bastion\/Camp Leatherneck and managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=117873\">destroy 6 US Marine Corps AV-8B <em>Harriers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and damage an additional 2.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve never managed to shoot one down, but they became a (ground) ace in a day.<\/p>\n<p>The attack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/09\/15\/deadly-attack-on-base-in-afghanistan-destroys-five-aircraft-damages-3\/\">killed two Marines<\/a>\u00a0and wounded nine coalition forces, with 14 militants killed and one captured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan insurgents dressed in US Army uniforms broke the lines at Camp Bastion\/Camp Leatherneck and managed to destroy 6 US Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers\u00a0and damage an additional 2. They&#8217;ve never managed to shoot one down, but they became a (ground) ace in a day. The attack killed two Marines\u00a0and wounded nine coalition forces, with 14 militants killed and one captured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58,13,88,1652,2155,2156,5285,779,149,2],"class_list":["post-19554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-aircraft","tag-army","tag-av-8b","tag-camp-bastion","tag-camp-leatherneck","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-harrier","tag-marines","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19554","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=19554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}