{"id":4233,"date":"2016-10-06T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/more-than-750-paratroopers-to-jump-near-delta-junction\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T03:26:00","slug":"more-than-750-paratroopers-to-jump-near-delta-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/more-than-750-paratroopers-to-jump-near-delta-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 750 paratroopers to jump near Delta Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 More than 750 paratroopers will drop from the sky in a military training event next week near Delta Junction.<\/p>\n<p>The Army in an announcement from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson says the jump Wednesday afternoon will be part of a mass airborne assault training event known as a \u201cJoint Forcible Entry Exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of the soldiers jumping will be from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment and the Spartan Brigade headquarters element.<\/p>\n<p>They will jump from 11 C-130 Hercules and C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from the U.S. Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force and Republic of Korea Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>The jump will be the first of two airborne training events in Exercise Spartan Cerberus, a brigade-level field training exercise that begins Tuesday and concludes Oct. 28.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/nation-and-world\/2016-10-06\/us-wants-strengthen-agreement-ban-arctic-ocean-fishing\" target=\"_blank\">US wants to strengthen agreement to ban Arctic Ocean fishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/2016-10-05\/theres-no-fighting-back\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;There&#8217;s no fighting back&#8217;: Hoonah hunter recalls being in the grip of a brown bear<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/2016-10-05\/city-election-turnout-trends-upward\" target=\"_blank\">City election turnout trends upward<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 More than 750 paratroopers will drop from the sky in a military training event next week near Delta Junction. The Army in an announcement from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson says the jump Wednesday afternoon will be part of a mass airborne assault training event known as a \u201cJoint Forcible Entry Exercise.\u201d Most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":4234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}