{"id":35453,"date":"2013-05-05T07:31:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35453"},"modified":"2013-05-05T07:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T11:31:56","slug":"silver-star-for-ssg-daniel-w-ridgeway-bomb-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35453","title":{"rendered":"Silver Star for SSG Daniel W. Ridgeway, bomb tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/wtkr.com\/2013\/05\/03\/marine-awarded-silver-star-medal\/\">a link to the awesome story<\/a> of Marine SSG Daniel W. Ridgeway, an EOD technician who was awarded a Silver Star for clearing minefields on his hands and knees to rescue a wounded Marine;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His award citation reads that he cleared a 40-meter path on his hands and knees to a fellow Marine after the team member was struck by an explosive device.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reaching the victim, he treated the Marine\u2019s wounds before turning him over to a corpsman for continued treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Ridgeway then began clearing a 100-meter by 100-meter landing zone so his team member could be evacuated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would seem to be enough for a day&#8217;s work, but Ridgeway&#8217;s team came under fire and his job had just begun;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After the team member was evacuated, his unit came under fire and he continued to clear more paths for his team and disarmed five more improvised explosive devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a video of SSG Ridgeway and the ceremony at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcti12.com\/news\/camp-lejeune-marine-to-receive-silver-star-medal\/-\/13530444\/19949376\/-\/ln0t7d\/-\/index.html\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to the awesome story of Marine SSG Daniel W. Ridgeway, &hellip; <a title=\"Silver Star for SSG Daniel W. Ridgeway, bomb tech\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35453\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silver Star for SSG Daniel W. Ridgeway, bomb tech<\/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-35453","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\/35453","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=35453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}