{"id":57902,"date":"2015-01-28T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57902"},"modified":"2015-01-28T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:08:34","slug":"tech-sergeant-justin-mahana-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57902","title":{"rendered":"Tech. Sergeant Justin Mahana saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57903\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57903\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tech.-Sgt.-Justin-Mahana-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tech. Sgt. Justin Mahana\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tech.-Sgt.-Justin-Mahana-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tech.-Sgt.-Justin-Mahana-271x333.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tech.-Sgt.-Justin-Mahana.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Dennis \u2013 not chevy sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/562226\/airman-pulls-woman-from-burning-vehicle.aspx\">Airforce.mil<\/a> about Tech. Sergeant Justin Mahana of the 823rd Maintenance Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, where he&#8217;s a support section chief. A few weeks ago, he witnessed a single car accident and as the car burst into flames, Mahana, thought quickly and saved the woman inside;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I checked the passenger and back seats to see if there was anybody else in the car &#8212; there wasn&#8217;t &#8212; so I finally just hooked my arm around her and pretty much just yanked her out and got her away from the car,&#8221; Mahana said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think she would&#8217;ve gotten out of the car on her own because she was in shock and just didn&#8217;t know what was going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the first responders arrived on scene, the fire grew worse, but Mahana was only focused on consoling the middle-aged woman he had just pulled from the burning vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was trying to keep her from going further into shock,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There was tons of smoke and the smell of burning plastic was bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After being thanked by the first responders, Mahana was back on the road.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I help out wherever I can; it&#8217;s just the way I was raised,&#8221; Mahana said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t do anything for the recognition; it&#8217;s just because it&#8217;s the right thing to do. Whatever is written up about this whole thing is going to be more than I expected and really more than I wanted.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis \u2013 not chevy sends us a link to Airforce.mil about Tech. Sergeant Justin Mahana of &hellip; <a title=\"Tech. Sergeant Justin Mahana saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57902\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech. Sergeant Justin Mahana saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57902","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\/57902","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=57902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}