{"id":12918,"date":"2016-03-09T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2016-03-09T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:34:08","slug":"101st-airborne-assumes-command-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/101st-airborne-assumes-command-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"101st Airborne Assumes Command in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12919\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/101.jpg\" alt=\"101\" width=\"534\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After casing its colors two weeks ago at Fort Campbell to mark its deployment to Iraq, the 101st Airborne Division has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/101stCG\/posts\/976687979033042?notif_t=notify_me_page\">officially assumed command of forces in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a transfer-of-authority ceremony Tuesday in Baghdad, the 82nd Airborne Division relinquished command to Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, commanding general of the 101st, and the rest of the division headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Since Volesky&#8217;s arrival in the country, he has toured different sites and cities around Iraq to get a better understanding of the level of operations in the fight against the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>After retaking Ramadi last year, the U.S.-led coalition forces have been training and advising the Iraqi security forces to continue to force IS\u00a0out of cities such as its stronghold in Mosul, according to defense officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from the Associated Press, the fight to take back Mosul could be months away.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleafchronicle.com\/story\/news\/local\/fort-campbell\/2016\/03\/08\/101st-airborne-assumes-command-iraq\/81485598\/\">The Leaf Chronicle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After casing its colors two weeks ago at Fort Campbell to mark its deployment to Iraq, the 101st Airborne Division has officially assumed command of forces in the country. In a transfer-of-authority ceremony Tuesday in Baghdad, the 82nd Airborne Division relinquished command to Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, commanding general of the 101st, and the rest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,3172,2820],"tags":[3324,5327,5328,5329],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}