{"id":54357,"date":"2014-08-05T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54357"},"modified":"2014-08-04T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T22:03:12","slug":"diver-to-receive-navy-and-marine-corps-medal-posthumously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54357","title":{"rendered":"Diver to receive Navy and Marine Corps Medal Posthumously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2014\/08\/navy-diver-heroic-last-breath\">The Virginian-Pilot<\/a> reports that they got a Freedom of Information Act report on the deaths of two Navy divers, Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Harris and Petty Officer 1st Class James Reyher which shows that Harris, who was trying to rescue Reyher, trapped under debris, could have escaped his own death by abandoning his friend, but stayed with him until they both died on Feb. 26, 2013;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bottom was dark, strewn with debris from prior exercises and ordnance training, allowing them just a foot or two of visibility. Silt lined the pond floor and would further limit visibility if disturbed.<\/p>\n<p>The men were going through their air faster than the calculations had estimated. Moments after they reached bottom, a signal from sailors on the surface indicated it was time to start their ascent.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s probably when Harris and Reyher realized they had problems, the investigator concluded. Reyher\u2019s breathing apparatus had started leaking air, causing it to freeze, so he switched over to his backup regulator, hoping to stem the leak.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he\u2019d somehow gotten tangled at the bottom of the pond.<\/p>\n<p>Harris tried to help. He wrapped some of the line connecting him to Reyher around his arm, straining to try and pull his buddy free. Soon their air was running low.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rescue attempts from the surface failed while Harris tried to free his friend even though he could have escaped his own death.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That heroism will be honored in coming months, when the Navy posthumously awards Harris the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginian-Pilot reports that they got a Freedom of Information Act report on the deaths of &hellip; <a title=\"Diver to receive Navy and Marine Corps Medal Posthumously\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54357\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Diver to receive Navy and Marine Corps Medal Posthumously<\/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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54357","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=54357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}