{"id":234049,"date":"2016-08-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=234049"},"modified":"2016-08-11T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:00:12","slug":"air-force-conduct-training-w-517-fdm-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/air-force-conduct-training-w-517-fdm-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force to conduct training at W-517, FDM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASAN, Guam<\/strong>\u2014The Air Force will conduct training at Warning Area 517 (W-517) Aug. 12 from 7am to 2pm.    <\/p>\n<p>The Air Force will also conduct training at the island of Farallon de Medinilla Aug. 12 from noon to 4pm.   <\/p>\n<p>The general public\u2014especially fishermen, commercial pilots, and marine tour operators\u2014are advised to stay clear of the areas during the dates and times indicated.<\/p>\n<p>W-517 is activated south of latitude 12\u00b0 40\u2019 00\u201dN. All vessels are advised to remain clear of W-517 south of latitude 12\u00b0 40\u2019 00\u201dN. Santa Rosa Reef and Galvez Bank are open for public use. W-517 is an irregular shaped polygon comprising of 14,000 nautical square miles of airspace that begins south of Guam and extends south-southwest in international waters. W-517 supports surface and aerial gunnery, missiles, and laser exercises. <\/p>\n<p>The general location of the training on the island of Farallon de Medinilla will be on a 10-nautical mile radius on all quadrants. Farallon de Medinilla plays a special and unique role in national defense because its location provides frequent access that supports established training requirements. In addition, the air and sea space in the Farallon, located in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, provide sufficient room to conduct the many training profiles required to support aircrew combat readiness requirements. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASAN, Guam\u2014The Air Force will conduct training at Warning Area 517 (W-517) Aug. 12 from&#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":[418,1420,332,12887],"class_list":["post-234049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-air-force","tag-asan","tag-fdm","tag-w-517-aug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234049","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=234049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}