{"id":24214,"date":"2024-03-27T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/deploying-soldiers-on-deadly-missions-my-toughest-job-chief-of-army-staff\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:03:29","slug":"deploying-soldiers-on-deadly-missions-my-toughest-job-chief-of-army-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/deploying-soldiers-on-deadly-missions-my-toughest-job-chief-of-army-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Deploying soldiers on deadly missions, my toughest job\u2019 \u2013 Chief of Army Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Taoreed Lagbaja, on Wednesday disclosed that deploying soldiers on missions which may claim their lives is his toughest job.<\/p>\n<p>The Army chief spoke during the burial of 17 soldiers killed in Okuama community of Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>Lagbaja said: \u201cAs the chief of Army Staff, I consider putting fine men and women in harm\u2019s way sometimes, knowing that they will not return to their families and loved ones, my toughest job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy men know that when I send them out, despite the equipment, training, and other forms of preparation, some may not make it back alive, while some may return handicapped and invalid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the troops of 181 Amphibious Batallion, Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, while on a peace mission to Okuoma Community were ambushed and killed by some irate youths.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred when the troops responded to a distress call following a communal crisis between Okuoma and Okoloba communities in Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>The personnel comprised one Lieutenant Colonel, two Majors, one Captain and 13 soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Deploying soldiers on deadly missions, my toughest job\u2019 \u2013 Chief of Army Staff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Taoreed Lagbaja, on Wednesday disclosed that deploying soldiers on missions which may claim&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4815],"tags":[4817,180,4818],"class_list":["post-24214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-taoreed-lagbaja","tag-lagbaja","tag-news","tag-taoreed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}