{"id":104029,"date":"2020-08-21T13:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104029"},"modified":"2020-08-21T13:10:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T17:10:35","slug":"marine-awarded-highest-noncombat-medal-for-heroic-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104029","title":{"rendered":"Marine awarded highest noncombat medal for heroic action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104030 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/grajeda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"218\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kevin A. Grajeda, Combat Logistics Regiment 27, (CLR-27), 2nd Marine Logistics Group (2nd MLG), is awarded with the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by Col. Brian W. Mullery, commanding officer of CLR-27, 2nd MLG, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina July 17, 2020. (Cpl. Rachel K. Young-Porter\/Marine Corps)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author: Philip Athey<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the night of Dec. 13, 2018, Lance Cpl. Kevin Grajeda was driving home from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, after a late night at work.<\/p>\n<p>He was trying to arrange dinner plans with a friend when he witnessed two cars collide on the road in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>His attempt to save one of the victims of the accident ultimately earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal ? the highest noncombat award Marines can receive ? and changed his life forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI immediately thought I got to get off the phone, I have to go help these people,\u201d Grajeda told Marine Corps Times.<\/p>\n<p>Jumping into action, Grajeda called 911 and reported the accident, noting that one of the victims ? local middle school teacher Madeleine Hobbs ? was unconscious in her car.<\/p>\n<p>When smoke started billowing out of the car carrying the unconscious woman, Grajeda knew he had to go in.<\/p>\n<p>Without thinking of his own safety, Grajeda rushed over to pull them woman out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was my only course of action,\u201d Grajeda said. \u201cI feel that that woman would have died in her car if I didn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Grajeda and all involved the danger wasn\u2019t over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the tragic and infuriating ending here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/08\/20\/marine-awarded-highest-noncombat-medal-for-heroic-action-in-north-carolina-traffic-accident\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kevin A. Grajeda, Combat Logistics Regiment 27, (CLR-27), 2nd Marine Logistics Group &hellip; <a title=\"Marine awarded highest noncombat medal for heroic action\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104029\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine awarded highest noncombat medal for heroic action<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,331,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bravo-zulu","category-marines","category-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104032,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104029\/revisions\/104032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}