{"id":56005,"date":"2014-10-24T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56005"},"modified":"2014-10-23T17:25:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T21:25:32","slug":"sergeant-major-robert-gallagher-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56005","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant Major Robert Gallagher passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56006\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sgt.-Maj.-Robert-Gallagher.jpg\" alt=\"Sgt. Maj. Robert Gallagher\" width=\"158\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56006\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/10\/23\/decorated-soldier-from-black-hawk-down-battle-in-somalia-dies-at-52\/\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Sergeant Major Robert Gallagher has passed from a heart condition at the age of 52. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He served as the command sergeant major for the Army\u2019s Wounded Warrior Program, but had extensive experience in major combat operations, including Operation Just Cause in Panama and with Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu, Somalia, which was later made famous by the 2001 film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I don\u2019t say this lightly, but Bob is probably one of, probably the best soldier I ever served with, retired Col. Greg Gadson told the newspaper. \u201cThat man really cared about soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born in Bayonne, N.J., Gallagher joined the Army in 1981 and later earned several awards and decorations, including a Silver Star, two Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aw2.armylive.dodlive.mil\/tag\/csm-robert-gallagher\/\">The Army Live blog<\/a> interviewed Sergeant Major Gallagher in 2010;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Q: Your thoughts on leadership were recently featured by the Army as a part of \u201cThe Year of the NCO.\u201d What are three words or phrases that sum up your leadership style?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A: Down to earth. Grounded in reality. Respect for people.<\/p>\n<p>Although I didn\u2019t know it at the time, looking back I think I\u2019ve learned a lot about leadership and overcoming adversity from my dad. My mom passed away when I was very young, and my dad basically raised three boys all by himself while working two blue collar jobs. My brothers and I all turned out very well, and I really credit my dad for that. One of my brothers also joined the military, and my other brother is a Vice-President at Merrill Lynch.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Sergeant Major Robert Gallagher has passed from a heart condition at the &hellip; <a title=\"Sergeant Major Robert Gallagher passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56005\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sergeant Major Robert Gallagher passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56005","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\/56005","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=56005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}