{"id":72096,"date":"2026-04-18T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/two-us-army-soldiers-injured-by-brown-bear-during-training-exercise-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:57:11","slug":"two-us-army-soldiers-injured-by-brown-bear-during-training-exercise-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/two-us-army-soldiers-injured-by-brown-bear-during-training-exercise-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Two US army soldiers injured by brown bear during training exercise in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers were participating in \u2018land navigation training\u2019 when bear injured them in a \u2018defensive attack\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Two US army soldiers have been injured after encountering a brown bear in a mountainous training area in Anchorage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/alaska\">Alaska<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">military<\/a> said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Thursday as the soldiers were participating in a \u201cland navigation training event\u201d in Arctic Valley, part of the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson\u2019s training area.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/18\/army-soldiers-brown-bear-attack-alaska\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers were participating in \u2018land navigation training\u2019 when bear injured them in a \u2018defensive attack\u2019 Two US army soldiers have been injured after encountering a brown bear in a mountainous training area in Anchorage, Alaska, the military said on Friday. The incident happened on Thursday as the soldiers were participating in a \u201cland navigation training &#8230; <a title=\"Two US army soldiers injured by brown bear during training exercise in Alaska\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/two-us-army-soldiers-injured-by-brown-bear-during-training-exercise-in-alaska\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Two US army soldiers injured by brown bear during training exercise in Alaska\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}