{"id":425,"date":"2016-05-20T06:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deamaltzchallenge.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2017-01-12T19:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T02:06:56","slug":"army-sgt-travis-m-arndt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/20\/army-sgt-travis-m-arndt\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Sgt. Travis M. Arndt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"record-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thefallen.militarytimes.com\/valor-soldiers-images\/zzarndt_travis_m.jpg\" width=\"125\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=atpco\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"record-txt\">\n<h1 class=\"h1-size\">Army Sgt. Travis M. Arndt<\/h1>\n<h2>Died September 21, 2005 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>23, of Bozeman, Mont.; assigned to the 163rd Cavalry Troop, 116th Brigade Combat Team, 42nd Infantry Division, Montana Army National Guard, Missoula, Mont.; killed Sept. 21 in a vehicle accident during convoy operations in Kirkuk, Iraq.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Good-natured soldier loved outdoors, say friends<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Travis M. Arndt loved to drive in the mountains in his Jeep. He loved long, hot afternoons diving off the rocks on the Missouri River. He loved hiking and snowshoeing in the Rocky Mountain Front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a really good kid,\u201d said Tina Price, mother of one of Travis\u2019 best friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a happy-go-lucky, smiling-all-the-time kid, a really fun guy to be around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arndt, 23, of Bozeman, Mont., was killed Sept. 21 in a vehicle accident in Kirkuk. He was assigned to Missoula.<\/p>\n<p>A 2001 high school graduate, he had been taking classes at Montana State University. He wanted to become a football coach or a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravis had a contagious laugh,\u201d said his father, Mark Arndt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could change the mood in a room from somber to joyous. My son was somebody everybody admired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arndt was an amateur boxer and he lifted weights, especially the parallel squat and power clean. He had planned to come home on leave in October to surprise his girlfriend, Lindsay Logan, on her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly believe he planned to ask her to marry him,\u201d said his stepbrother, Steve Salazar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Sgt. Travis M. Arndt Died September 21, 2005 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom 23, of Bozeman, Mont.; assigned to the 163rd Cavalry Troop, 116th Brigade Combat Team, 42nd Infantry Division, Montana Army National Guard, Missoula, Mont.; killed Sept. 21 in a vehicle accident during convoy operations in Kirkuk, Iraq. Good-natured soldier loved outdoors, say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017honorees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}