{"id":29174,"date":"2012-03-18T18:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29174"},"modified":"2012-03-18T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:45:14","slug":"ranger-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29174","title":{"rendered":"Ranger Awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtoc.com\/story\/17178718\/rangers-recognized-for-acts-of-courage\">a local news station in Savannah<\/a> which reports the awarding of scores of medals to members of the 1st Bn 75th Rangers at Hunter Army Airfield;<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/www.wtoc.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=650525;hostDomain=www.wtoc.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=6849836;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>10 Silver Stars, one of the highest awards for valor, and 16 Purple Hearts, honoring those wounded in action, were among the medals earned by almost 80 Rangers with the First Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. In a deployment last year, they conducted 900 missions and killed or captured more than 2,000, yet none of the Rangers seek singular recognition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s for individual valorous achievement, but I think it is more of a collective achievement because we have had so many across the whole Battalion,&#8221; said 1SG Michael Eiermann, 1\/75 Ranger Battalion, Silver Star recipient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two Silver Stars were also awarded to families of fallen Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to a local news station in Savannah which reports the awarding &hellip; <a title=\"Ranger Awards ceremony\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29174\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ranger Awards ceremony<\/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-29174","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\/29174","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=29174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}