{"id":199560,"date":"2026-03-01T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199560"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:26:55","slug":"operation-epic-fury-takes-the-lives-of-three-u-s-service-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199560","title":{"rendered":"Operation Epic Fury Takes the Lives of Three U.S. Service Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL&#8230;As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-186544\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand-701x701.jpg 701w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions \u2014 and are in the process of being returned to duty. Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is fluid, so out of respect for the families, we will withhold additional information, including the identities of our fallen warriors, until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL&#8230;As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury. Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions \u2014 and are in the process of being returned to duty. Major combat operations continue and our response effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/centralcommand.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199561,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199560\/revisions\/199561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}