{"id":42827,"date":"2014-04-09T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=42827"},"modified":"2014-04-09T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T17:43:11","slug":"awards-ceremony-at-fort-benning-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42827","title":{"rendered":"Awards ceremony at Fort Benning, GA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=41010\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Silver-star-151x300.jpg\" alt=\"Silver star\" width=\"151\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Silver-star-151x300.jpg 151w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Silver-star-167x333.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Silver-star.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/2014\/04\/08\/3046657\/fallen-rangers-posthumously-awarded.html?sp=\/99\/100\/&#038;ihp=1\">Columbus Ledger-Enquirer<\/a> reports that my personal hero, MG H.R. McMaster, the commander of the Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning, Georgia had a busy day pinning awards on heroes there the other day. Not all of the recipients survived their bravery;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Six months after they were killed by an IED in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sgt. Patrick C. Hawkins and Spc. Cody J. Patterson of the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment were posthumously awarded the Bronze Star with Valor Device during a combat awards ceremony Tuesday at Fort Benning.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Gen. H.R. McMaster, commander of the Maneuver Center of Excellence, also presented a Silver Star, the third-highest military decoration for valor, 10 other Bronze Stars, 33 Purple Hearts and 18 Army Commendations with Valor Device for the Rangers actions between Aug. 20 and Dec. 17. During the period, the battalion conducted more than 140 missions that killed or captured 250 enemy insurgents and leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I could go on about the things that they did to earn their medals, but you should click over and read it for yourself. There was some studly stuff going on that we never hear about. It also provides a stark example of why I get so pissed about stolen valor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports that my personal hero, MG H.R. McMaster, the commander of the Maneuver &hellip; <a title=\"Awards ceremony at Fort Benning, GA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42827\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Awards ceremony at Fort Benning, GA<\/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-42827","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\/42827","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=42827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}