{"id":295736,"date":"2026-09-28T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295736\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:52:08","slug":"send-off-ceremony-held-in-northeast-philadelphia-for-150-national-guard-soldiers-ahead-of-deployment-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295736\/","title":{"rendered":"Send-off ceremony held in Northeast Philadelphia for 150 National Guard soldiers ahead of deployment to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790625128_758_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, September 28, 2026 6:52PM<\/p>\n<p>More than 150 National Guard soldiers are getting ready to depart for their next mission overseas.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; More than 150 National Guard soldiers are getting ready to depart for their next mission overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Action Cam was in Northeast Philadelphia Monday morning for a send-off ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Family and friends were there to support their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The troops are departing for a year-long deployment to Africa, where they will focus on security objectives in the region.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, September 28, 2026 6:52PM More than 150 National Guard soldiers are getting ready to depart for their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[122285,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-295736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-122285","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}