{"id":357277,"date":"2026-07-30T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357277\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:24:05","slug":"north-central-florida-native-to-participate-in-one-of-the-worlds-largest-maritime-war-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357277\/","title":{"rendered":"North Central Florida native to participate in one of the world\u2019s largest maritime war exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; At least one North Central Florida native is participating in one of the world\u2019s largest maritime warfare exercises, \u201cRim of the Pacific\u201d, according to U.S. Navy officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Navy Officials said, Corporal Diego Deanda, graduated from North Marion High School in 2020 and joined the Marine Corps three years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deanda is one of more than 25,000 personnel from dozens of countries participating int he \u201cRim of the Pacific\u201d exercise around the Hawaiian islands. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The exercise rehearses disaster relief, maritime security, ad combat operations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; At least one North Central Florida native is participating in one of the world\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[145837,28,30,29,12594,45347,145838,109975],"class_list":["post-357277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-diego-deanda","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-maritime","tag-north-central-florida","tag-rim-of-the-pacific","tag-us-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}