{"id":46916,"date":"2014-05-12T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46916"},"modified":"2014-05-12T09:08:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T13:08:38","slug":"marsoc-msgt-to-receive-silver-star-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46916","title":{"rendered":"MARSOC MSgt to Receive Silver Star Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSgt Donovan E. Petty, assigned to 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Camp Lejeune, NC, will receive the Silver Star today.\u00a0 The decoration will be presented by the\u00a0 Maj Gen Mark A Clark, Commander, MARSOC, at a ceremony at Stone Bay.<\/p>\n<p>MSgt Petty is receiving the award for heroism in Afghanistan on 1 November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/article\/20140509\/NEWS\/305090080\/Silver-Star-operator-Master-sergeant-routed-insurgents-2012-firefight\">has an article giving some of the details<\/a> of MSgt Petty&#8217;s actions that day.\u00a0 After reading it, I&#8217;d say the decoration is fully deserved.\u00a0 <em>Cojones muy grandes<\/em>, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Damn well done, MSgt Petty.\u00a0 Kudos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSgt Donovan E. Petty, assigned to 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Camp Lejeune, NC, will receive &hellip; <a title=\"MARSOC MSgt to Receive Silver Star Today\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46916\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MARSOC MSgt to Receive Silver Star Today<\/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":[184,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46916","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=46916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}