{"id":52086,"date":"2014-06-23T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52086"},"modified":"2014-06-23T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:52:22","slug":"sgt-ryan-pitts-to-be-awarded-the-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52086","title":{"rendered":"SGT Ryan Pitts to be awarded the Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=52087\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ryan-Pitts-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Pitts\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ryan-Pitts-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ryan-Pitts-500x262.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ryan-Pitts.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2014\/06\/23\/president-obama-award-medal-honor\">The White House <\/a>has released the announcement that the Medal of Honor will be awarded to Sergeant Ryan M. Pitts of 2nd Platoon, Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, serving as the Forward Observer at the Battle of Wanat in Afghanistan on July 13, 2008. The award will be made on July 21, 2014 at the White House;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Staff Sergeant Pitts enlisted in the Army in August 2003 as a Fire Support Specialist (13F), primarily responsible for the intelligence activities of the Army\u2019s field artillery team.   After completion of training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and follow-on parachutist training at the U.S. Army Airborne School, Fort Benning, Georgia, he was assigned to Camp Ederle, Vicenza, Italy, as a radio operator with the 4th Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment and 173rd Airborne Brigade where he deployed to Afghanistan.  His final assignment was with the 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment &#8220;The Rock&#8221;, 173rd Airborne Brigade as a Forward Observer which included a second combat tour to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>His personal awards include the Bronze Star Medal w\/ \u201cV\u201d Device, Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal w\/ three Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Achievement Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal with Bronze Clasp and two Loops, National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Two Campaign Stars, Global War on Terrorism Medal, Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon with Numeral \u201c4\u201d,  NATO Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Combat Action Badge, Pathfinder Badge and Parachutist Badge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more about his actions that day at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140623\/NEWS\/306230052\/Army-staff-sergeant-will-receive-Medal-Honor-valor-Wanat\">The Army Times<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/soldiers-recount-deadly-attack-on-afghanistan-outpost-1.81141\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has released the announcement that the Medal of Honor will be awarded to &hellip; <a title=\"SGT Ryan Pitts to be awarded the Medal of Honor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52086\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SGT Ryan Pitts to be awarded the Medal of Honor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52086","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=52086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}