{"id":214631,"date":"2015-11-16T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=214631"},"modified":"2015-11-16T06:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T20:06:23","slug":"marines-non-fire-training-on-tinian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/marines-non-fire-training-on-tinian\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines\u2019 non-fire training on Tinian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEDEDO, Guam\u2014More than 70 years after participating in the amphibious landings on Tinian in World War II, 1st Battalion 2d Marines will return to Tinian to conduct a non-fire training exercise from Nov. 16 to 18. This exercise tests a rapid deployment capability of first echelon forces that is a critical part of the Marine Corps\u2019 Unit Deployment Program.<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina-based force will fly into the Tinian International Airport aboard a KC-130 and hike to North Field where they will train for two nights, learning firsthand about their unit history and lineage through battlefield studies, lecture and discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The Marines will also consider the history of Tinian and its strategic importance in the international security environment.<\/p>\n<p>Further commemorating this occasion, two Marines from 1st Battalion 2nd Marines will take this opportunity to re-enlist in the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p>Upon conclusion of their mission, the force will return on foot to the Tinian International Airport and redeploy to Fuji, Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEDEDO, Guam\u2014More than 70 years after participating in the amphibious landings on Tinian in World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[170,8212,3581],"class_list":["post-214631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-japan","tag-north-field","tag-tinian-international-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214631","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}