{"id":37200,"date":"2013-08-22T09:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37200"},"modified":"2013-08-22T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:05:45","slug":"army-ssgs-john-russell-and-brian-williams-saving-the-world-one-person-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37200","title":{"rendered":"Army SSGs John Russell and Brian Williams; saving the world one person at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chief Tango sends us a link to a Washington Post<\/a> article about Army SSGs John Russell and Brian Williams who were out jogging on the National Mall in Washington DC when they came across a jogger who had been hit by a bus. Their military medical and leadership training kicked in as they treated the fallen man;<\/p>\n

The last time Russell and Williams encountered casualties, they were under fire in Afghanistan, separately treating soldiers felled by insurgent snipers and a roadside bomb that overturned an armored vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou realize that the guy lying in front of you needs help, that he just happened to be in the wrong place and you in the right place,\u201d said Russell, 37. \u201cThe man, he was beat up pretty bad when we ran over to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The friends returned from war four years ago and settled into more sedentary lives in the Washington suburbs \u2014 Russell with his wife and 5-year-old son, Blake, in Fairfax; Williams with his wife and 13-year-old son, Anthony, in Alexandria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A D.C. fire department spokesman confirmed that two men who identified themselves as Army soldiers were treating the patient when the paramedics arrived. Kenneth B. Ellerbe, the chief of D.C.\u2019s Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, praised the soldiers\u2019 efforts and noted the advantages to being in a city with a \u201cwell-trained civilian population.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You should read the whole well-written article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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