{"id":29825,"date":"2012-05-05T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29825"},"modified":"2012-05-05T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T17:38:18","slug":"troops-saving-the-world-one-person-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29825","title":{"rendered":"PFC Lucas McKinney; saving the world one person at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country Singer sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbir.com\/news\/article\/218918\/2\/Hendersonville-Guardsman-saves-mans-life\">a link to the story<\/a> of a brand new National Guardsman who joins my list of real superheroes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was outside of the store talking with customers when a woman pulled up in a car saying there was a man lying on the ground and not moving,&#8221; recounted [PFC Lucas McKinney, a member of the Tennessee Army National Guard&#8217;s 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment]. <\/p>\n<p>He then ran to the man, finding him not breathing and without a pulse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I immediately started to give CPR,&#8221; said McKinney, who received his initial EMT and CPR training while he was at the military&#8217;s Advanced Initial Training in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He returned to Tennessee only two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At first I thought the man had just fainted, but when I realized something more serious was wrong, I just did what the Army trained me to do,&#8221; said McKinney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He remained calm and didn&#8217;t hesitate,&#8221; said Milan Kacar, the manager on duty that day. &#8220;He definitely knew what he was doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was the first time I have ever had to perform CPR on a person,&#8221; McKinney added.<\/p>\n<p>McKinney, who works part-time at Lowes, successfully resuscitated the man and remained by his side until paramedics arrived and took over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How about that? Army training works in real life. I&#8217;d rather bore you with a hundred of these stories everyday than the shitbags I usually have to write about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country Singer sends us a link to the story of a brand new National Guardsman who &hellip; <a title=\"PFC Lucas McKinney; saving the world one person at a time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29825\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PFC Lucas McKinney; saving the world one person at a time<\/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-29825","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\/29825","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=29825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}