{"id":37553,"date":"2013-09-12T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37553"},"modified":"2013-09-12T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:44:24","slug":"col-fred-lough-returns-to-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37553","title":{"rendered":"Col. Fred Lough returns to service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MCPO Ret. In TN sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?storyid=274503\">a link to an article<\/a> about Colonel Frederick Lough, a 64-year-old cardiac surgeon who has returned to the Army Reserve leaving George Washington University Hospital and hearing the call of duty;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a member of the Army Reserves, Lough was recently deployed twice to Afghanistan and performed hundreds of surgeries in tents. Last year, he was part of a Forward Surgical Team (FTS) close to the fighting near the Pakistani border providing support for the 173 Airborne Brigade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were being mortared and rocketed on a daily basis. Casualties and fatalities occurred on our base,&#8221; said Lough.<\/p>\n<p>He was there when the base was severely damaged by a fuel truck bomb, which destroyed the surgical unit. It was rebuilt in hours. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Colonel Lough will be assigned to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD &#8211; otherwise known on this blog as the happiest place on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCPO Ret. In TN sends us a link to an article about Colonel Frederick Lough, a &hellip; <a title=\"Col. Fred Lough returns to service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37553\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Col. Fred Lough returns to service<\/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":[130,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers","category-walter-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37553","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=37553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}