{"id":251765,"date":"2017-05-08T06:06:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=251765"},"modified":"2017-05-08T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T20:06:27","slug":"us-marines-join-french-led-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/us-marines-join-french-led-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marines join French-led exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKINAWA, Japan\u2014U.S. Marine Corps and multinational forces are now conducting Exercise Jeanne D\u2019Arc on land and in the surrounding waters of Guam and Tinian until May 18. <\/p>\n<p>Approximately 100 Marines from 3rd Marine Division joined forces from France, Japan and British Royal Marine Commandos who are honing their collective defense capabilities. The multi-day training includes vertical assaults, amphibious raids, close quarter engagement techniques and urban patrolling. <\/p>\n<p>Exercise Jeanne D\u2019Arc is an annual French-led exercise aimed at strengthening strategic partnerships and exercising freedom of navigation operations across the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKINAWA, Japan\u2014U.S. Marine Corps and multinational forces are now conducting Exercise Jeanne D\u2019Arc on land&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[398,170,1229,3061],"class_list":["post-251765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-france","tag-japan","tag-marine-corps","tag-marine-division"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251765","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=251765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}