{"id":30098,"date":"2012-05-23T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T20:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30098"},"modified":"2012-05-23T16:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T20:13:49","slug":"canadas-award-to-fort-bragg-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30098","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s award to Fort Bragg unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/m.wral.com\/w\/localnews\/story\/62101945\/\">WRAL, a Raleigh, North Carolina TV station<\/a>, which reports that for the first time ever, the canadian government is  presenting an award of the Canadian Commander-in-Chief Unit Commendation to an American unit, 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group for their actions in a September, 2006 battle in Afghanistan&#8217;s Kandahar Province.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Members of the battalion assisted Canadian forces in an attack on an insurgent stronghold in the district of Panjwai, west of Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Bragg Special Forces stared down a much larger enemy force over days of intense fighting to protect Canadian soldiers and hold their position. The battle, code named Operation Medusa, is chronicled in the book &#8220;Lions of Kandahar.&#8221; Over nine days, the group killed more than 500 enemy fighters, a success that paved the way for Afghan Security Forces to establish a presence in the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will sends us a link from WRAL, a Raleigh, North Carolina TV station, which reports that &hellip; <a title=\"Canada&#8217;s award to Fort Bragg unit\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30098\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canada&#8217;s award to Fort Bragg unit<\/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-30098","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\/30098","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=30098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}