{"id":40375,"date":"2014-03-16T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40375"},"modified":"2014-03-15T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T21:07:55","slug":"lt-josh-pitcher-returns-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40375","title":{"rendered":"LT Josh Pitcher returns to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yEAI1V6rKgU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stars &#038; Stripes tells the story of 1LT Josh Pitcher who was wounded nearly two years ago and lost his leg. He&#8217;s is training to go back as a platoon leader in the 82d Airborne Division;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> After the incident, his life spiraled out of control, he said. But just over a year and a half later, Pitcher put that fear on the back burner as he climbed back through the ranks, earning the U.S. Army\u2019s Expert Infantry Badge \u2014 something not easily obtained even by soldiers with two legs.<\/p>\n<p>Then he requalified as a paratrooper, completing multiple combat jumps with his new prosthetic leg. Now he\u2019s back with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, serving in Afghanistan\u2019s Regional Command-North.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes tells the story of 1LT Josh Pitcher who was wounded nearly two years &hellip; <a title=\"LT Josh Pitcher returns to Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40375\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LT Josh Pitcher returns to Afghanistan<\/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-40375","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\/40375","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=40375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}