{"id":58907,"date":"2020-08-29T02:31:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T07:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58907"},"modified":"2020-08-29T02:31:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T07:31:34","slug":"58907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58907","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/military\/story\/2020-08-28\/two-soldiers-killed-three-hurt-in-training-accident-off-coronado\">2 soldiers killed, 3 injured in Army Black Hawk helicopter crash on San Clemente Island<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two soldiers were killed and three injured when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed on San Clemente Island late Thursday, according to a Defense Department official.<\/p>\n<p>The Army\u2019s Special Operation\u2019s Command said in a statement the incident occurred in the vicinity of Coronado and declined to comment further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time we are not releasing anything beyond the statement provided,\u201d said J. Elise Van Pool, an Army spokeswoman, in an email. \u201cWe are still in the process of making next of kin notifications and will not release any additional information until that process is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Defense Department official with knowledge of the incident told The San Diego Union-Tribune that the crash occurred on San Clemente Island, which is about 70 miles west of San Diego and controlled by the U.S. Navy. The island has an airfield, a bombing range and a training facility used by special operations units. The island falls under the command of Naval Base Coronado.<\/p>\n<p>The official spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to comment publicly. The accident involved members of the Army\u2019s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers were conducting \u201croutine training,\u201d the Army said in a statement early Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn element of U.S. Army Special Operations Command was conducting routine training in the vicinity of Coronado, California, on August 27, when an aircraft incident occurred,\u201d the Army said in a statement. \u201cTwo Soldiers were killed and three were injured. The area has been secured and an investigation into the incident is underway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Clemente Island is part of Los Angeles County. The Thursday crash was the second fatal accident involving military personnel there during the last month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 soldiers killed, 3 injured in Army Black Hawk helicopter crash on San Clemente Island Two soldiers were killed and three injured when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed on San Clemente Island late Thursday, according to a Defense Department official. The Army\u2019s Special Operation\u2019s Command said in a statement the incident occurred in the vicinity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58907\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58908,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58907\/revisions\/58908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}