{"id":62557,"date":"2015-10-31T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62557"},"modified":"2015-10-30T19:20:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:20:06","slug":"major-charles-chuck-kettles-closer-to-moh-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62557","title":{"rendered":"Major Charles &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Kettles closer to MOH award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62558\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62558\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Charles-Nettles-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Kettles\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Charles-Nettles-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Charles-Nettles-384x333.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Charles-Nettles.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/ann-arbor\/index.ssf\/2015\/10\/ypsilanti_vietnam_veteran_to_r.html\">Ann Arbor News<\/a> reports that Charles Kettles is a step closer to having his Distinguished Service Cross upgraded to a Medal of Honor for his actions on May 15, 1967 when he rescued eight soldiers who had been stranded on a Landing Zone after the Major&#8217;s aircraft had cleared the &#8220;hot LZ&#8221;. You should read the story at the link above. <\/p>\n<p>The article reports that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has signed off on the paperwork for the Medal of Honor and now it goes to Congress before the President signs off on it. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/valor.militarytimes.com\/recipient.php?recipientid=4709\">a link to Kettles&#8217; citation<\/a> for the DSC.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=4578854533001&#038;playerID=2436806291001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAQBxUr7k~,PsMaWpexSO0gBGbwp0HC65I60alsnUQ1&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=4578854533001&#038;playerID=2436806291001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAQBxUr7k~,PsMaWpexSO0gBGbwp0HC65I60alsnUQ1&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ann Arbor News reports that Charles Kettles is a step closer to having his Distinguished &hellip; <a title=\"Major Charles &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Kettles closer to MOH award\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62557\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major Charles &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Kettles closer to MOH award<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62557","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\/62557","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=62557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}