{"id":151546,"date":"2024-01-04T10:15:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151546"},"modified":"2024-01-03T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T16:44:41","slug":"uss-carney-sailors-awarded-the-combat-action-ribbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151546","title":{"rendered":"USS Carney Sailors awarded the Combat Action Ribbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Combat_Action_ribbon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Combat_Action_ribbon-300x84.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Combat_Action_ribbon-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Combat_Action_ribbon-500x141.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Combat_Action_ribbon.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the USS Carney&#8217;s role in shooting down missiles and drones in the Red Sea, its crew received the Combat Action Ribbon (CAR). Five Sailors also received medals for their performance with shooting these missiles and drones. In 2017, Sailors stationed on board the USS Mason, USS Nitze, USS Ponce, and USS San Antonio received the CAR after being fired upon by Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From the Military Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carney&#8217;s commanding officer, Cmdr. Jeremy Robertson, and another unidentified sailor received Navy Commendation medals from Cooper, while three other crew members received Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medals.<\/p>\n<p>The entire crew also received the combat action ribbon, or CAR for short, an honor rarely bestowed on Navy crews in modern times.<\/p>\n<p>Sailors aboard fellow destroyers Mason and Nitze, as well as the amphibious transport docks Ponce and San Antonio, received the ribbon in 2017, after they were fired upon by Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, no crew had received the distinction since the 1991 Gulf War.<\/p>\n<p>Since October, Carney been at the forefront of operations to take out Houthi drones and missiles in the economically vital Red Sea, as commercial vessels have repeatedly come under attack by the Iran allies as the Israel-Hamas war continues to rage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Military Times has additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/01\/02\/uss-carney-sailors-awarded-for-battling-houthi-attacks-in-red-sea\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the USS Carney&#8217;s role in shooting down missiles and drones in the Red Sea, its &hellip; <a title=\"USS Carney Sailors awarded the Combat Action Ribbon\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151546\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Carney Sailors awarded the Combat Action Ribbon<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-affairs","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151546","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}