{"id":35433,"date":"2013-05-03T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35433"},"modified":"2013-05-03T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:19:46","slug":"navy-corpsman-receives-silver-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35433","title":{"rendered":"Navy Corpsman Receives Silver Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HM1 Benny Flores \u2013 a Navy Corpsman \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/article\/20130502\/NEWS\/304300022\/Corpsman-receive-Silver-Star-Pendleton-Friday\">was awarded the Silver Star today at Camp Pendleton, CA<\/a>. \u00a0The award was for heroism HM1 Flores displayed while deployed with USMC elements in Afghanistan last year.<\/p>\n<p>HM1 Flores\u2019 heroic actions occurred in Zaranj, Nimruz province.\u00a0 During April 2012, a vehicle in which he and other Allied forces were traveling was hit by a suicide bomber.\u00a0 HM1 Flores rendered immediate medical assistance to the wounded of that attack and during the resulting 20-minute firefight afterwards.\u00a0 During these actions, HM1 Flores exposed himself repeatedly to enemy fire in order to render assistance to friendly casualties.\u00a0 At least 4 times he left a covered position in order to render assistance to and\/or recover US and other friendly casualties in exposed locations.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, HM1 Flores.\u00a0 Well deserved kudos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HM1 Benny Flores \u2013 a Navy Corpsman \u2013\u00a0was awarded the Silver Star today at Camp Pendleton, &hellip; <a title=\"Navy Corpsman Receives Silver Star\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35433\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy Corpsman Receives Silver Star<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,119,130,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps","category-navy","category-real-soldiers","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}