{"id":33854,"date":"2015-10-26T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33854"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:35:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:35:47","slug":"us-marine-killed-in-homecoming-fa-18-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/26\/us-marine-killed-in-homecoming-fa-18-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marine Killed in Homecoming F\/A-18 Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Marine Corps pilot <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7news.com\/news\/family-of-us-marine-killed-in-plane-crash-speaks-out\/1046146\/\">Maj Taj Sareen<\/a> was killed last Friday when his F\/A-18C <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2015\/10\/21\/us-fa18-jet-crashes-in-england-one-person-reported-killed.html\">crashed<\/a> shortly after takeoff near RAF Lakenheath in England. He was part of a unit that was returning from a six-month combat tour in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate he ejected just prior to the crash but did not survive.<\/p>\n<p>Sareen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/story\/military\/2015\/10\/23\/corps-ids-pilot-killed-f-18-crash-england\/74450512\/\">reportedly<\/a> had a young daughter waiting for him back in California.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Military\/2015\/1021\/Fighter-jet-crash-in-England-kills-US-pilot\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Marine Corps pilot Maj Taj Sareen was killed last Friday when his F\/A-18C crashed shortly after takeoff near RAF Lakenheath in England. He was part of a unit that was returning from a six-month combat tour in the Middle East. Reports indicate he ejected just prior to the crash but did not survive. Sareen reportedly had a young daughter [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5285,1793,755,149,2],"class_list":["post-33854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-hornet","tag-lakenheath","tag-marines","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854","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=33854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}