{"id":39351,"date":"2014-01-17T08:10:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39351"},"modified":"2014-01-17T08:10:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:10:30","slug":"brian-cotts-another-marine-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39351","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cotts; another Marine saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Cotts, a former Marine (if there is such a thing) saw an armed robbery happen near Andrews Air Force Base in Southeast DC yesterday, and decided that he needed to do something when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/Former-Marine-Gives-Chase-to-Four-Armed-Robbers-240666491.html\">he saw the thieves kidnap a woman<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I saw all that happening, all I wanted to do is stop that woman from being hurt. I did what I had to do to save her life,&#8221; Brian Cotts told News4&#8217;s Shomari Stone.<\/p>\n<p>Cotts, along with a passenger, bravely followed the robbers. He knew exactly what to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[I was thinking], I got to get that tag number,&#8221; Cotts said.<\/p>\n<p>Things took a turn for the dangerous, and quickly. The suspects noticed Cotts was following them, and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>The bullets shattered the glass of his pickup truck, but Cotts was not seriously injured. Police eventually caught up with the robbers in Southeast D.C., recovering four guns and the stolen cash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=240670321&#038;videoID=izmSuzFkEG06&#038;origin=nbcwashington.com&#038;sec=news&#038;subsec=local&#038;width=500&#038;height=300\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When asked why he would endanger his own life just to save a woman he didn&#8217;t know, Cotts replied &#8220;Who&#8217;s to say my life is any better than that lady&#8217;s life?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Cotts, a former Marine (if there is such a thing) saw an armed robbery happen &hellip; <a title=\"Brian Cotts; another Marine saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39351\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brian Cotts; another Marine saving the world<\/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-39351","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\/39351","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=39351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}