{"id":177168,"date":"2014-08-22T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=177168"},"modified":"2014-08-22T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:00:15","slug":"us-military-reduce-land-footprint-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/us-military-reduce-land-footprint-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"US military to reduce land footprint in Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAGATNA, Guam<\/strong> (AP)\u2014U.S. defense officials say they plan to keep their pledge to reduce the military\u2019s land footprint in Guam even as it shifts about 5,000 people to the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Daily News reported Wednesday that Department of Defense Undersecretary Robert Work reiterated the promise during a visit to the island.<\/p>\n<p>Work says recently revised plans shift family housing to Andersen Air Force Base for about 1,300 military dependents, rather than develop about 400 acres of forested area.<\/p>\n<p>He says the change saves the military money because renovated homes can use existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The United States plan to shift about 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam. More than one-fourth of Guam\u2019s land is under military control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAGATNA, Guam (AP)\u2014U.S. defense officials say they plan to keep their pledge to reduce the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,200,320],"class_list":["post-177168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-military","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}