{"id":23240,"date":"2011-05-05T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23240"},"modified":"2011-05-05T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T02:19:12","slug":"uss-michael-murphy-ddg-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23240","title":{"rendered":"USS Michael Murphy DDG-112"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medalofhonornews.com\/2011\/05\/navy-will-christen-uss-michael-murphy.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Medal of Honor News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Navy will christen the newest guided-missile destroyer, Michael  Murphy, Saturday, May 7, 2011, during a 10 a.m. EDT ceremony at General  Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.   The new destroyer honors Navy  SEAL (Sea, Air, Land) <strong>Lt. Michael P. Murphy<\/strong> who was posthumously awarded  the <strong>Medal of Honor<\/strong> for his heroic actions during Operation Red Wings in  Afghanistan June 28, 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With all the talk about DEVGRU (or SEAL Team 6)  perhaps it worth noting that there are, and have been, other SEALS out there doing some heavy lifting as well.<\/p>\n<p>No, this is not a &#8216;news&#8217; story since it&#8217;s been in the works for several years, but coming on the heels of events surrounding  the death of UBL it has a new relevance.<\/p>\n<p>BZ<\/p>\n<p>Added: Although the dates may disagree a bit, <a href=\"http:\/\/aw1tim.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/05\/uss-michael-murphy-ddg-112\/\" target=\"_blank\">AW1Tim has a worthwhile take on this<\/a>.\u00a0 Lot&#8217;s more information than I opted to post here, but perhaps I should have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Medal of Honor News: The Navy will christen the newest guided-missile destroyer, Michael Murphy, &hellip; <a title=\"USS Michael Murphy DDG-112\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23240\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Michael Murphy DDG-112<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23240","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}