{"id":48922,"date":"2014-05-27T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48922"},"modified":"2014-05-27T11:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T15:47:43","slug":"ssg-pat-watkins-receives-the-dsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48922","title":{"rendered":"MSG Pat Watkins Receives the DSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired MSG Pat Watkins, formerly of the 7th Special Forces Group, US Army, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross last week.<\/p>\n<p>The award was a bit delayed.\u00a0 The heroic acts for which it was presented occurred on <em>23 August 1968<\/em> &#8211; in Da Nang, South Vietnam.\u00a0 At the time, Watkins was a Staff Sergeant.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Northwest Florida Daily News<\/span> has additional details.\u00a0 Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwfdailynews.com\/military\/top-story\/a-belated-honor-for-special-forces-vet-photos-1.323039\">article is certainly worth reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well-deserved kudos, MSG Watkins; damn well done.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unfortunate that your being recognized for what you did it took so long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should thank God that such men lived.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired MSG Pat Watkins, formerly of the 7th Special Forces Group, US Army, was awarded the &hellip; <a title=\"MSG Pat Watkins Receives the DSC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48922\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MSG Pat Watkins Receives the DSC<\/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-48922","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\/48922","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=48922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}