{"id":58592,"date":"2015-03-07T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58592"},"modified":"2015-03-16T02:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T06:21:27","slug":"spc-amanda-dillard-saving-the-world-one-person-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58592","title":{"rendered":"SPC Amanda Dillard; saving the world, one person at a time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58593\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Soldiers-Medal-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Soldiers Medal SPC Amanda Dillard\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-58593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Soldiers-Medal-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Soldiers-Medal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Soldiers-Medal.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I had the honor of witnessing Specialist Amanda Dillard of the 47th Combat Support Hospital presented with the Soldiers Medal for her actions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.880669288623143.1073741947.201649866525092&#038;type=1\">assisting the driver of a recent and severe car accident<\/a>. Now to say &#8220;assisted&#8221; would be a gross understatement. I will have to ask your indulgence, because I do not have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/47CSH\/photos\/a.880669288623143.1073741947.201649866525092\/882312065125532\/?type=3&#038;theater\">award write up<\/a> and I could not find a news story link when it happened around late 2014. Trying to remember the story from the presentation, it went something like this. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Specialist Amanda Dillard was driving off of JBLM at the end of the day when she came across a truck that had slid off the road and crashed into a tree head on. The truck totaled with the black smoke coming out of the engine. Dillard went through the passenger side to assess the situation. The driver suffered a C-2 fracture along other injuries that were not described. To make matters worse, the driver was going in and out of consciousness. He was able to survive the crash because she immobilized his head and neck for at least thirty minutes before medical personal arrived on the scene. During the times that the driver would come around, she kept him calm and comforted as much as possible. Specialist Amanda Dillard said that she used jokes and light conversation to help distract from their situation. She visited him at the hospital during his recovery to see how he was doing. She did not inform anyone about her actions that day. The only reason that 47th Combat Support Hospital found out about her actions was because of a was a member of the emergency service was able to contact one of her NCOs, who then informed the unit. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58594\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58594\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hug-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"SPC Amanda Dillard Hug Truck Driver \" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-58594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hug-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hug-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hug.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the presentation the driver of the truck spoke how amazing grateful he was to her and how things could have been drastically worse had she not done what she did. Saving the world, one person at a time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATED March 15 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is a news story written by the JBLM Northwest Guardian about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwguardian.com\/2015\/03\/13\/20591\/between-life-and-death-making.html\">award ceremony.<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the honor of witnessing Specialist Amanda Dillard of the 47th Combat Support Hospital &hellip; <a title=\"SPC Amanda Dillard; saving the world, one person at a time.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58592\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPC Amanda Dillard; saving the world, one person at a time.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58592","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}