{"id":622,"date":"2011-05-27T07:21:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=622"},"modified":"2011-05-27T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:24:24","slug":"622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Forces, US Marines lift damaged Chinook to safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5\/18\/2011\u00a0 <strong>By Cpl. Rashaun X. James, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Fwd)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div id=\"ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_EditModeControls_ctl03__ControlWrapper_RichHtmlField\">\n<p>\u00a0CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan  \u2014 Canadian and U.S.  forces safely recovered a downed Canadian Forces CH-47 Chinook helicopter during a tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel mission in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, May 17.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing a trio CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461, with assistance from 2nd Marine Logistics Group\u2019s helicopter support team, the Canadian and American team was able to transport the damaged aircraft back to its home at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan&#8230;&#8230;\u00bb <a title=\"Read More\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marines.mil\/unit\/mcascherrypoint\/Pages\/20110518ChinookLift.aspx\">Read More<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\/18\/2011\u00a0 By Cpl. Rashaun X. James, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Fwd)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan \u2014 Canadian and U.S. forces safely recovered a downed Canadian Forces CH-47 Chinook helicopter during a tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel mission in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, May 17. Utilizing a trio CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461, with assistance from 2nd Marine Logistics Group\u2019s helicopter support team, the Canadian and American team was able to transport the damaged aircraft back to its home at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan&#8230;&#8230;\u00bb Read More.\u00a0<\/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-622","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\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}