{"id":2316,"date":"2008-08-20T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2010-10-28T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:46:10","slug":"were-paratroopers-were-supposed-to-be-surrounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"We’re paratroopers, we’re supposed to be surrounded"},"content":{"rendered":"

The above quote is from the movie “Band of Brothers” and spoken by Richard Winters when warned that he was about to be surrounded by Germans at Bastogne in December of 1944. Recent events near Wanat, Afghanistan<\/a> indicates that the spirit of the Airborne still lives today as it did in World War II.<\/p>\n

Some of you may remember that I got to spend the evening with some of the reluctant heroes of that battle, from Chosen Company, 2\/503rd, as well as Tankerbabe<\/a> , a blogger who has adopted the unit.\u00a0 She has put up several articles about the battle, and everytime I read one of them, I’m in awe of the guys with whom I had the honor of slamming back Carbombs (apparently Tankerbabe’s libation of choice).<\/p>\n

She has one article about a medic, Specialist Jonathan Kaderli<\/a>, who has been nominated for a Bronze Star with a “V” and another about Specialist Tyler Stafford<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“They knew our guys were in trouble, and when the Airborne’s in trouble, you don’t leave them to die; you go help them,” Stafford said. “They brought what they could.”<\/p>\n

The Americans were running low on ammunition, and some of them were so badly wounded they were unable to move, Stafford said.<\/p>\n

Help did not come for an hour, he said.<\/p>\n

Stafford eventually was helicoptered to safety. He said he looked back at the scene below while aboard the chopper.<\/p>\n

“It’s like one of the those movies out of like Vietnam that you see with all these special effects and everything’s on fire,” he recalled. “Smoke in the air, and that’s all you see is tracer rounds going back and forth … just, ‘boom, boom, boom.’ “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who needs movie stars when we have real people like this among us?<\/p>\n

Tankerbabe, also wants everyone to know that Annheuser Busch <\/a>has donated 6,000 cans of beer to the Brigade for their homecoming next month. The best way to support paratroopers, I’ll tell you what. But keep an eye on Tankerbabe for the lastest on these extraordinary men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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