{"id":120692,"date":"2021-12-15T13:08:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120692"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:08:41","slug":"sergeant-first-class-alwyn-cashe-medal-of-honor-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120692","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe, Medal of Honor recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_120693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120693\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cashe-MoH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-120693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cashe-MoH-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cashe-MoH-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cashe-MoH-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cashe-MoH-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cashe-MoH.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of this site&#8217;s favorite heroes, US Army Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe, will be receiving his posthumous Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony tomorrow. This concludes a 16 year fight to get him the recognition he so well deserves. I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cashe for a Valor Friday<\/a> piece a while back, which details the incredible, and ultimately fatal, heroism the platoon sergeant displayed in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>For those inclined to watch the proceedings, the event will be live-streamed here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/webcast\/27857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/webcast\/27857.<\/a>\u00a0It will begin at 1330 EST 16 December, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Army&#8217;s write up on Cashe; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/cashe\/\">https:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/cashe\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also being awarded Medals of Honor at tomorrow&#8217;s ceremony are Master Sergeant Earl Plumlee (a Green Beret), who you can read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/plumlee\/?from=hp_spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and Sergeant First Class Christopher Celiz (an Army Ranger), a posthumous award, which you can read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/celiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both Cashe&#8217;s and Plumlee&#8217;s awards are upgrades from previously awarded Silver Stars. Celiz&#8217;s award appears to be an upgrade from a Bronze Star Medal for Valor. Prior to the above listed information from the Army, the details of Celiz&#8217;s actions went un-reported. All three men have most definitely should have been appropriately honored sooner.<\/p>\n<p>These men truly lived and exemplify the mottos of their respective units.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cashe, of the 15th Infantry Regiment,\u00a0<em>&#8220;Can Do&#8221;,<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Plumlee,\u00a0<em>&#8220;De Opresso Liber&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(Latin for &#8220;to liberate the oppressed&#8221;), and<\/li>\n<li>Celiz,\u00a0<em>&#8220;Rangers Lead the Way&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of this site&#8217;s favorite heroes, US Army Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe, will be receiving &hellip; <a title=\"Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe, Medal of Honor recipient\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120692\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe, Medal of Honor recipient<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,359,518,410,400,593,130,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-army","category-biden","category-bravo-zulu","category-iraq","category-medal-of-honor","category-real-soldiers","category-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120692","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120695,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120692\/revisions\/120695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}