{"id":13551,"date":"2009-08-12T18:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13551"},"modified":"2009-08-13T04:46:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T09:46:49","slug":"the-regiment-gets-a-new-boss%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13551","title":{"rendered":"THE Regiment Gets a New Boss\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ranger_hdr_22.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ranger_hdr_22.bmp\" alt=\"ranger_hdr_22\" title=\"ranger_hdr_22\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd not surprisingly another in a long list of studs to get the coveted position of Commander of the 75th Ranger Regiment.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally he brings a rather impressive resume to the job.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kurilla has served as a Rifle Platoon Leader and Executive Officer in 3\/505 PIR, 82d Airborne Division where he participated in Operation Just Cause and Operation Desert Shield\/Storm and subsequently as a Rifle Platoon Leader in the 3d Ranger Battalion. <\/p>\n<p>Following the Infantry Officer Advanced Course, he was assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division in Korea where he served as a Mechanized (BFV) Company Commander and returned to the 75th Ranger Regiment and subsequently 3d Ranger Battalion where he served as the Regimental Training Officer, Battalion S4, and Rifle Company Commander participating in Operation Uphold Democracy (Haiti). <\/p>\n<p>Kurilla was assigned to the 173d Airborne Brigade where he served as Battalion S3 in 1st Battalion, 508th Airborne Battalion Combat Team, Brigade S3 of the 173d Airborne Brigade, and Chief of Operations for the Southern European Task Force (Airborne), participating in numerous missions in support of Operation Joint Forge (Bosnia) and Operation Joint Guardian (Kosovo). He subsequently served as Aide de Camp to the Commanding General of the United States Army Europe and 7th Army. Colonel Kurilla commanded 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry (Stryker) \u201cDeuce Four\u201d deploying the battalion to Operation Iraqi Freedom from Oct 2004 &#8211; Sep 2005 where the battalion earned the Valorous Unit Award. Colonel Kurilla subsequently commanded 2d Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment where the battalion participated in numerous deployments to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are a fan of Michael Yon, you will certainly recognize the name.  Col. Kurilla was commander of 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment during some of the fiercest fighting in Iraq and Yon was along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>When you have a battalion commander get shot at close range and refuse evac and continue to fight, you have a real Ranger commander.  I\u2019m happy believing that the Ranger Regiment is in good hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And not surprisingly another in a long list of studs to get the coveted position of &hellip; <a title=\"THE Regiment Gets a New Boss\u2026\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13551\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE Regiment Gets a New Boss\u2026<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}