{"id":45586,"date":"2014-05-01T15:19:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=45586"},"modified":"2014-05-01T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:10:08","slug":"just-call-him-cool-hand-jon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45586","title":{"rendered":"Just Call Him &#8220;Cool Hand Jon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That would be SSG(P) Jon King, at Fort Sill, OK.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a vet of both Iraq and Afghanistan.\u00a0 He&#8217;s now assigned to C Company, 434th Field Artillery Detachment.<\/p>\n<p>Why call him that, you ask?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s just say the story involves a live grenade, a grenade range, a raw trainee, a potentially deadly error &#8211; and about 4 seconds to save a life at the risk of his own.\u00a0 Details are in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140430\/NEWS\/304300063\/Staff-sgt-s-rapid-response-saves-trainee-s-life-grenade-pithttp:\/\/\">this <em>Army Times<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article if you want to understand why IMO &#8220;Cool Hand&#8221; is apropos.\u00a0 I think you will afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>SSG(P) King received the interim award of an ARCOM for his actions on 14 April 2014.\u00a0 However, he&#8217;s also being considered for the Soldiers Medal.\u00a0 From what I read, sounds to me like this one should be the proverbial &#8220;no brainer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, SSG(P) King.\u00a0 Damn well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would be SSG(P) Jon King, at Fort Sill, OK.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a vet of both Iraq &hellip; <a title=\"Just Call Him &#8220;Cool Hand Jon&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45586\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Call Him &#8220;Cool Hand Jon&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45586","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\/45586","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}