{"id":61833,"date":"2015-09-14T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61833"},"modified":"2015-09-14T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T17:13:12","slug":"spencer-stone-to-get-purple-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61833","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Stone to get Purple Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/story\/military\/2015\/09\/14\/hero-airman-spencer-stone--receive-purple-heart\/72255752\/\">Military Times<\/a> article which reports that Spencer Stone, also known as &#8220;Captain America&#8221; from the group of Americans who stopped the terrorist attack on the train from Amsterdam to Paris a few weeks ago, will be honored for the act at the Pentagon. <\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will be presided over by Ashton Carter, the US Secretary of Defense while Spencer is awarded an Airman Medal and a Purple Heart.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know, how can you award an Airman Medal, which is typically for actions not involving combat with an armed enemy along with a Purple heart, which is awarded for wounds inflicted by an armed enemy? Military Times attempts to explain;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last month, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Stone was not eligible for other valor awards such as the Bronze Star with &#8220;V&#8221; or the Silver Star because his bravery was not during combat. But Welsh left open the possibility of awarding him the Purple Heart, if the attack was determined to be a terrorist attack. Welsh said that at the time the precedent set by awarding the Purple Heart victims of the 2009 Fort Hood attack could allow Stone to receive the same award.<\/p>\n<p>Purple Hearts are typically awarded only for combat actions. But the 2015 Defense Authorization Act extended eligibility for the Purple Heart to service members killed or wounded in attacks by foreign terrorist organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t understand, but there it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to a Military Times article which reports that Spencer Stone, also &hellip; <a title=\"Spencer Stone to get Purple Heart\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61833\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spencer Stone to get Purple Heart<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61833","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=61833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}