{"id":37615,"date":"2013-09-16T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37615"},"modified":"2013-09-16T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T21:35:55","slug":"captain-william-d-swenson-to-be-awarded-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37615","title":{"rendered":"Captain William D. Swenson to be awarded Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/09\/16\/president-obama-award-medal-honor\">The White House<\/a> announced today that Captain William D. Swenson will finally get his Medal of Honor on October 15, 2013. You might remember that CPT Swenson was with Dakota Meyer in the same action that earned the Medal for Meyer. Meyer lobbied for Swenson&#8217;s medal in his book &#8220;Into the Fire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Captain William D. Swenson separated from the Army on February 1, 2011 and currently resides in Seattle, Washington.  He is single.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Swenson was commissioned as an Army Officer upon completing Officer Candidate School on September 6, 2002.  His military training and education includes: Infantry Maneuver Captains Career Course, Ranger Course, Infantry Officer Basic, Infantry Mountain Leader Advanced Marksmanship Course, Airborne, Officer Candidate School.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the September 8, 2009 combat engagement, Captain Swenson was an Embedded Trainer and Mentor of Afghan National Security Forces.   His actions were performed as part of 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd BCT, 10th Mountain Division. <\/p>\n<p>His military decorations include: Bronze Star Medal with Two Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal with One Campaign Star, Iraq Campaign Medal with Two Campaign Stars, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Combat Infantryman Badge, Ranger Tab, Parachutist Badge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36231\">lobbying by members of Congress like Duncan Hunter<\/a> to pry this medal out of the Pentagon because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31367\">Swenson was fiercely critical of the rules of engagement<\/a> which he feels cost the lives of Americans in that tiny box canyon that day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House announced today that Captain William D. Swenson will finally get his Medal of &hellip; <a title=\"Captain William D. Swenson to be awarded Medal of Honor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37615\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Captain William D. Swenson to be awarded Medal of Honor<\/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-37615","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\/37615","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=37615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}