{"id":56708,"date":"2014-11-26T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56708"},"modified":"2014-11-26T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:54:31","slug":"cpo-justin-a-wilson-awarded-the-navy-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56708","title":{"rendered":"CPO Justin A. Wilson awarded the Navy Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56709\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Justin-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Justin\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Justin-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Justin-222x333.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Justin.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chief Petty Officer Justin A. Wilson, a corpsman with the 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command was awarded the Navy Cross yesterday at Camp Pendleton. CPO Wilson is the first sailor in MARSOC&#8217;s history to be awarded the Navy Cross, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/148843\/reconnaissance-corpsman-receives-navy-cross#.VHYOEsl5U2w\">DVIDS<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wilson, who was born in Beloit, Kansas, was awarded the Navy Cross for his extraordinary actions on Sept. 28, 2011, while deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. While on a patrol in Afghanistan, an improvised explosive device detonated, injuring Wilson and his teammates. Without hesitation or concern for his own injuries, Wilson moved his fallen teammates out of the kill zone before letting anyone attend to his wounds.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese men I served with were the embodiment of honor, courage and commitment,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cSome people tell me that I\u2019m lucky to be alive, but I think I was really lucky to have served with these great men.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Staff Sgts. Christopher Diaz and Nicholas Sprovtsoff were posthumously awarded Bronze Stars that they earned during the same incident.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Terry for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Petty Officer Justin A. Wilson, a corpsman with the 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion, U.S. &hellip; <a title=\"CPO Justin A. Wilson awarded the Navy Cross\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56708\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CPO Justin A. Wilson awarded the Navy Cross<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56708","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=56708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}