{"id":540,"date":"2011-01-30T00:09:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T06:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=540"},"modified":"2011-01-30T00:16:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T06:16:41","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes- Canadian Combat Helicopters in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Friday, January 14, 2011 &#8211; Graham Lavery<\/h4>\n<p>In a rare and exclusive opportunity, Vertical\u2019s embedded team got a first-hand, as-it-happens look at the planning and performance of one of JTF-Afg Air Wing\u2019s most comprehensive missions \u2014 one that embodied the Wing\u2019s whole reason for being. On a clear, almost windless night over southern Afghanistan in early October 2010, the Canadian Forces Joint Task Force Afghanistan (JTF-Afg) Air Wing, based in Kandahar, conducted a full-scale operation that embodied the entire premise for the Wing&#8217;s creation in 2008&#8230;..\u00bb <a title=\"Read More\" href=\"http:\/\/www.verticalmag.com\/control\/news\/templates\/?a=15875&amp;z=11\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 14, 2011 &#8211; Graham Lavery In a rare and exclusive opportunity, Vertical\u2019s embedded team got a first-hand, as-it-happens look at the planning and performance of one of JTF-Afg Air Wing\u2019s most comprehensive missions \u2014 one that embodied the Wing\u2019s whole reason for being. On a clear, almost windless night over southern Afghanistan in early October 2010, the Canadian Forces Joint Task Force Afghanistan (JTF-Afg) Air Wing, based in Kandahar, conducted a full-scale operation that embodied the entire premise for the Wing&#8217;s creation in 2008&#8230;..\u00bb Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-408-squadron-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}