{"id":24682,"date":"2011-06-22T07:09:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24682"},"modified":"2011-06-22T07:13:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:13:35","slug":"meet-sfc-joe-kapacziewski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24682","title":{"rendered":"Meet SFC Joe Kapacziewski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/military\/2011-06-19-Afghanistan-Iraq-Army-Rangers-amputee-Purple-Heart_n.htm#.Tf-gnC5FS-s;email\">article in USAToday<\/a> about the only Ranger serving in combat with a prosthetic limb;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the moment his broken body was pulled from an armored vehicle in Iraq \u2014 after an enemy grenade, dropped through a hatch, detonated inches away \u2014Army Ranger Joseph Kapacziewski vowed to be back in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this going to ruin my chances of being a squad leader?&#8221; he asked as he was carried into a medical ward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Fast-forward five years to the morning of April 19, 2010, to a village in eastern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>With help from his false leg, Sgt. 1st Class Kapacziewski, 28, races down an Afghan road through enemy fire to reach a fellow Ranger who had been shot in the stomach. Along with another soldier, they drag the wounded man 75 yards to safety and administer first aid as insurgents with heavy machine guns try to kill them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to an article in USAToday about the only Ranger serving in &hellip; <a title=\"Meet SFC Joe Kapacziewski\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24682\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet SFC Joe Kapacziewski<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24682","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=24682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}