{"id":25882,"date":"2011-07-18T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25882"},"modified":"2011-07-18T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:56:36","slug":"why-marines-like-their-corpsmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25882","title":{"rendered":"Why Marines like their corpsmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2011\/07\/navy-silver-star-wounded-corpsman-071811w\/\">Navy Times<\/a> comes the story a Navy Corpsman, Jake Emmott,  who despite withering gun fire continued to treat &#8220;his&#8221; Marines, until he was knocked unconscious by a gunshot wound to the head. When he regained consciousness,  Emmott refused treatment and continued to treat the wounded Marines and staggered to the helicopter on his own two legs;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A year later, Emmott, now an HM2, was presented with the Silver Star. Emmott was honored, along with fellow service members and caregivers, at the annual Navy Safe Harbor awards ceremony July 14 outside Washington. The Safe Harbor program provides nonmedical support for 688 wounded or ill sailors and Coast Guardsmen.<\/p>\n<p>The award caps a remarkable turnaround for the 22-year-old from Wakefield, R.I. After a year of surgeries and rehab, Emmott is on track to recover.<\/p>\n<p>The injuries were severe. The bullet pierced Emmott\u2019s sinus cavity and exited behind his left ear, narrowly missing the vital carotid artery. Surgeons removed a third of his skull to relieve pressure on his swelling brain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sgt. Alan McAlister, then Emmott\u2019s squad leader, saw him get shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially, it was like, \u2018OK, he\u2019s dead,\u2019 \u201d McAlister recalled thinking. \u201cFocus on the firefight, getting everybody out of here. When he came back to life, it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, here we go. This just got interesting.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emmott plans on returning to his unit and to his job as a corpsman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Navy Times comes the story a Navy Corpsman, Jake Emmott, who despite withering gun &hellip; <a title=\"Why Marines like their corpsmen\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25882\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Marines like their corpsmen<\/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-25882","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\/25882","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=25882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}