{"id":9895,"date":"2011-06-26T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=9895"},"modified":"2011-06-26T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T18:59:31","slug":"local-man-serving-in-northern-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/06\/26\/local-man-serving-in-northern-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Local man serving in northern Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Army National Guard and Van Wert resident Specialist Seth Blackmore is currently serving his country in northern Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9896\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9896 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SPC-Seth-Bolenbaugh-daughter-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"174\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Specialist Seth Bolenbaugh and his daughter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blackmore has been deployed for nine months, with a total deployment time of 12 months, and is due home in early September.<\/p>\n<p>Blackmore is a member of Marysville-based Charlie Battery, 1-174th Air Defense Artillery. The company is doing a CRAM mission. CRAM stands for Counter Rocket Artillery and Missiles \u2013 basically, the unit shoots incoming artillery out of the sky and stands by the ADA motto &#8220;if it flies, it dies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Spec. Blackmore has a 3-year-old daughter who he misses dearly.\u00a0Blackmore is the son of Matthew and Tabatha Blackmore and brother of Brittany, Chelsea and Brock Blackmore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Army National Guard and Van Wert resident Specialist Seth Blackmore is currently serving his country in northern Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. Blackmore has been deployed for nine months, with a total deployment time of 12 months, and is due home in early September. Blackmore is a member of Marysville-based Charlie Battery, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youth"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 11:31:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}