{"id":78468,"date":"2011-02-15T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123242651"},"modified":"2011-02-15T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:11:23","slug":"airmen-fend-off-insurgent-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=78468","title":{"rendered":"Airmen fend off insurgent attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123242651\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/110215-F-0000M-001.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was 7 a.m. June 30, 2010, and Staff Sgt. Archie Garcia, 21st Security Forces Squadron, heard a boom and then a siren on his forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking that the U.S. military personnel were sleeping, an estimated 30 to 50 Afghanistan insurgents attacked the base with a car bomb at one of the base observation towers. The insurgent assault team was armed with rocket propelled grenades, suicide vests and small arms weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as the IED hit, all of these Taliban guys were trying to get on base, trying to breach the perimeter,&#8221; Sergeant Garcia said.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123242651\">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-78468","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\/78468","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=78468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78468\/revisions"}],"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=78468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}