{"id":11941,"date":"2012-08-20T21:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T02:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2012-08-20T21:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T02:59:31","slug":"local-u-s-army-soldier-killed-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/08\/local-u-s-army-soldier-killed-in-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Local U.S. Army Soldier <br>Killed In Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11942\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/local-u-s-army-soldier-killed-in-helicopter-crash\/hornsby\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942\" title=\"Hornsby\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hornsby-e1345516771410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Warrant Officer Brian D. Hornsby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A U.S. Army soldier from Lehigh Acres died while serving in Afghanistan, according to the United States Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Warrant Officer Brian D. Hornsby, 37, was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>He died in an August 16 helicopter crash northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Hornsby attended Riverdale High School. He also attended and graduated from the University of South Florida, Fort Myers \u2013 what is now Florida Gulf Coast University.<\/p>\n<p>Hornsby was married with two young children and his family is now making plans for a private memorial service.<\/p>\n<p>He was deployed to Afghanistan in January of 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Army soldier from Lehigh Acres died while serving in Afghanistan, according to the United States Department of Defense. Chief Warrant Officer Brian D. Hornsby, 37, was assigned to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}