{"id":60350,"date":"2015-06-13T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60350"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:05:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T20:05:58","slug":"marine-sergeant-cody-leifheit-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60350","title":{"rendered":"Marine Sergeant Cody Leifheit saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=60351\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60351\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cody-Leifheit-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cody Leifheit\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cody-Leifheit-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cody-Leifheit-222x333.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cody-Leifheit.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Marine Corps Sergeant Cody Leifheit heard yelling and screaming in his new neighborhood and ran to find out if someone was in trouble or not. He found a 19-year-old Travis Kent hanging by his neck from a tree branch 25 feet off the ground. Leifheit sprinted back to house and retrieved a blade to cut down the apparently lifeless body;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSergeant Leifheit was like Hercules climbing the tree,\u201d recalled Tow, adding that Leifheit reacted without hesitation and ascended the tree \u201cas easily as if he were climbing stairs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Former subordinate of the sergeant spoke with admiration;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\t\u201cI\u2019m sure it was just another day for him,\u201d said Marine Corps Cpl. Jeff Decker, who served under Leifheit from 2012-2015. He described Leifheit as a respected leader devoted to caring for and training his Marines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we gave 100 percent, he gave us 110 percent back,\u201d Decker said of Leifheit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But you should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=129033&#038;source=GovDelivery\">go to the link<\/a> and read the whole story of the sergeant who wouldn&#8217;t give up on a young man who had given up on himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe can mess up a lot of things in life where there are no immediate consequences,\u201d Leifheit said. \u201cOne thing you can never fail at twice is saving a person\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother is the closest thing I\u2019ll ever have to a dad,\u201d Dartanian said. \u201cBy saving his life, Sergeant Leifheit practically saved mine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Corps Sergeant Cody Leifheit heard yelling and screaming in his new neighborhood and ran to &hellip; <a title=\"Marine Sergeant Cody Leifheit saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60350\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine Sergeant Cody Leifheit saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60350","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=60350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}