{"id":3042,"date":"2012-08-17T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/08\/17\/happy-airborne-day-day-late\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:19","slug":"happy-airborne-day-day-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3042","title":{"rendered":"Happy Airborne Day &#8211; A Day Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15295,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/82ndairbornedivisionmuseum.com\\\/cube\\\/images\\\/uploads\\\/CDs\\\/US_army_airborne.jpg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12917,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/National_Airborne_Day&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/National_Airborne_Day&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5736,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/armedandsafe.blogspot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12919,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ncgunblog.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ncgunblog.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/82ndairbornedivisionmuseum.com\/cube\/images\/uploads\/CDs\/US_army_airborne.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"302\" mda=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/82ndairbornedivisionmuseum.com\/cube\/images\/uploads\/CDs\/US_army_airborne.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that yesterday was the officially designated <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Airborne_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Airborne Day<\/a>. The first official Army&nbsp;airborne jump was made on August 16, 1940. Thus August 16th was the&nbsp;day was designated by Congress in 2001 to honor those who have or are serving in the US Army Airborne.<\/p>\n<p>So while it is a day late, I&#8217;d like to recognize two fellow gun bloggers who served in the 82nd Airborne Division: <a href=\"http:\/\/armedandsafe.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kurt Hoffman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgunblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Sorrentino<\/a>.&nbsp;They, much&nbsp;like the Airborne is to the Big Army, are at the forefront of the fight to preserve our Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>So to them and all the others who served in the various Airborne divisions, brigades, and other such units, thank you for your service.<\/p>\n<p>If I have missed other gun bloggers who are airborne vets, let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that yesterday was the officially designated National Airborne Day. The first official Army&nbsp;airborne jump was made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2921],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-national-airborne-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8276,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/8276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}