{"id":19478,"date":"2010-06-17T12:37:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T16:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19478"},"modified":"2010-06-17T12:37:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T16:37:50","slug":"112th-corpsmen-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19478","title":{"rendered":"112th Corpsmen Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Corpsmen-memorial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19479\" title=\"Corpsmen memorial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Corpsmen-memorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Corpsmen-memorial.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Corpsmen-memorial-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CavRick writes to tell us that today is the 112th birthday of the Corpsman rating in the Navy. there&#8217;s a memorial being built in Jacksonville, North Carolina to commemorate that special relationship between Marines and their corpsmen. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdnews.com\/news\/corpsmen-79428-memorial-revealed.html\">JDNews <\/a>link)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The vice president of the Corpsmen Memorial Foundation, retired 1st Sgt. Kevin] Howell said that countless Marines would attest to the honor that corpsmen deserve for their work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have to say that 50 percent of the Marines that have been wounded and are alive today are simply because of the corpsmen in the field,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are an awful lot of guys that are walking around today that would not be here with us without them, including me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The picture above is a prototype of the proposed Corpsmen Memorial. I&#8217;ve always heard that Marines love their corpmen and I think that memorial shows it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CavRick writes to tell us that today is the 112th birthday of the Corpsman rating in &hellip; <a title=\"112th Corpsmen Birthday\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19478\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">112th Corpsmen Birthday<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}