{"id":291767,"date":"2019-01-15T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=291767"},"modified":"2019-01-15T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:06:07","slug":"guam-guard-airmen-begin-departing-for-deployments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-guard-airmen-begin-departing-for-deployments\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam Guard airmen begin departing for deployments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airmen from the Guam Air National Guard\u2019s 254th Air Base Group and the 254th Security Forces Squadron have been departing over the past week en route to several deployment missions and locations in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in Southwest Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The airmen of the 254ABG, specifically the Cyber Flight, are tasked to provide quality communication systems and services to its units worldwide.\u00a0This includes equipping, administering, training and providing personnel to operate and maintain good ground communications, electronics and computer systems and facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the\u00a0254SFS are tasked with the\u00a0protection of those that protect our nation.\u00a0 They are responsible for force protection and anti-terrorism duties to defeat security threats and tasked with the protection of\u00a0Federal property from hazards such as sabotage, espionage, trespass, theft, fire, and accident or willful damage and destruction, in addition to maintaining\u00a0law and order, preserve the\u00a0peace, and protect life and civil rights within their assigned\u00a0theater of\u00a0operations\u00a0in order to engineer combat power and establish and sustain combat platforms.<\/p>\n<p>More airmen are scheduled to leave in the coming days and weeks as required.\u00a0Theywill be deployed for approximately six months. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airmen from the Guam Air National Guard\u2019s 254th Air Base Group and the 254th Security&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":291768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1205],"class_list":["post-291767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific","tag-guam-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291767","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=291767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}