{"id":105182,"date":"2020-09-17T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105182"},"modified":"2020-09-17T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:20:44","slug":"trump-presents-distinguished-flying-cross-to-7-guardsmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105182","title":{"rendered":"Trump Presents Distinguished Flying Cross to 7 Guardsmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105183 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/facebook-Trump-Distinguished-Flying-Cross-1200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/facebook-Trump-Distinguished-Flying-Cross-1200-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/facebook-Trump-Distinguished-Flying-Cross-1200-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/facebook-Trump-Distinguished-Flying-Cross-1200.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>President Trump honored seven members of California\u2019s National Guard with the Distinguished Flying Cross, Sept. 14, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eggs sends.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8230;for Wildfire Rescues<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Bing Xiao<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Donald Trump awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on Monday to two California Army National Guard aircrews who flew repeatedly into a raging wildfire in two separate endeavors to rescue hundreds of trapped campers &#8212; despite being warned repeatedly to abort due to the danger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, it&#8217;s my profound honor to award seven extraordinary soldiers with the Distinguished Flying Crosses for their remarkable courage to rescue their fellow citizens,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony honored the actions of two crews from the 40th Combat Aviation Brigade: UH-6-M Black Hawk pilot-in-command Kipp Goding, pilot Chief Warrant Officer 2 Irvin Hernandez and crew chief Warrant Officer 1 Ge Xiong received medals, as well as CH-47F Chinook pilot-in-command Chief Warrant Officer 5 Joseph Rosamond, pilot Chief Warrant Officer 2 Brady Hlebain, and flight engineers Sgt. George Esquivel and Sgt. Cameron Powell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bravo Zulu, folks! Read the rest here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2020\/09\/15\/trump-presents-distinguished-flying-cross-7-guardsmen-wildfire-rescues.html\">Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Eggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump honored seven members of California\u2019s National Guard with the Distinguished Flying Cross, Sept. 14, &hellip; <a title=\"Trump Presents Distinguished Flying Cross to 7 Guardsmen\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105182\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump Presents Distinguished Flying Cross to 7 Guardsmen<\/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":[75,410,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-bravo-zulu","category-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105182","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=105182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105191,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105182\/revisions\/105191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}