{"id":18437,"date":"2010-03-24T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123196611"},"modified":"2010-03-24T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:39:00","slug":"3rd-herd-airmen-proving-their-worth-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=18437","title":{"rendered":"3rd Herd Airmen proving their worth in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123196611\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100326-F-4094W-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for members of the 3rd Combat Communications Group from Tinker Air Force Base to prove their worth in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>Within 26 hours of hitting the ground Feb. 2, the 31 Airmen from the 3rd CCG, or 3rd Herd, had established a communications headquarters and soon began providing deployable communications capabilities to other U.S forces in the earthquake stricken area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was pretty rough when we first got here,&#8221; Maj. Kenneth Bratland, 32nd Combat Communications Squadron commander, said recently via telephone. &#8220;The communications that were available when we first got here were spread out all over the place.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123196611\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18567,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions\/18567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}