{"id":4572,"date":"2009-04-13T07:59:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T12:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2009-04-13T07:59:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T12:59:04","slug":"three-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4572","title":{"rendered":"Three Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military spokespeople say the the SEAL snipers took only three shots to kill the three pirates yesterday.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the kind of thing that you roll your eyes over when you read it in a Tom Clancy novel.<br \/>\nBut yes, SEAL\/Delta\/Marine snipers <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090413\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/piracy_single_shot_takedowns\"><em>are<\/em> that good:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked how the snipers could have killed each pirate with a single shot in the darkness, Gortney described them as &#8220;extremely, extremely well-trained.&#8221; He told NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show the shooting by the snipers was ordered by the captain of the Bainbridge after the pirates &#8220;exposed themselves&#8221; to attack.Military officials were widely praising the snipers for three flawless shots, which they described as remarkable, coming at night and from the stern of a ship on rolling waters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s pretty praiseworthy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military spokespeople say the the SEAL snipers took only three shots to kill the three pirates yesterday.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the kind of thing that you roll your eyes over when you read it in a Tom Clancy novel. But yes, SEAL\/Delta\/Marine snipers are that good: Asked how the snipers could have killed each pirate with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}