{"id":62707,"date":"2015-11-09T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62707"},"modified":"2015-11-09T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:36:43","slug":"jackson-georgia-welcomes-airman-kcey-e-ruiz-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62707","title":{"rendered":"Jackson, Georgia welcomes Airman Kcey E. Ruiz home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62708\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62708\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kcey-E.-Ruiz-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kcey E. Ruiz\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kcey-E.-Ruiz-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kcey-E.-Ruiz-443x333.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kcey-E.-Ruiz-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Kcey-E.-Ruiz.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Airman 1st Class Kcey E. Ruiz came home to Jackson, Georgia for the last time a few weeks ago. She was 21 years old when she died in a C-130 crash on October 2d at Jalalabad Airfield in Aghanistan. The whole town turned out for her, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryherald.com\/news\/2015\/oct\/13\/a-hero8217s-welcome-fallen-airman-mourned-in\/\">Henry Herald<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Led by law enforcement officers, with a helicopter flyover, the procession made its way from Tara Field Tuesday afternoon, through Griffin and into Jackson bound for the Lewis Sims and Son Funeral Home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, her first choice for military jobs was in the medical field, but because there was nothing in the field available, she worked as one of the Air Force&#8217;s security folks, but she planned to train as an EMT after her deployment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jackson Mayor Kay Pippin said Tuesday the city joined thousands of others who mourned Kcey Ruiz&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is a sad day in the city of Jackson as we welcome home a fallen hero, U.S. Airman Kcey Ruiz,&#8221; Pippin said in a statement. &#8220;While no words can fully express our sympathy to the family of Airman Ruiz, the city of Jackson joins the throngs of thousands in expressing our sadness and our heartfelt respect and appreciation for this outstandng soldier who has paid the ultimate price to assure this great nation stays free.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airman 1st Class Kcey E. Ruiz came home to Jackson, Georgia for the last time a &hellip; <a title=\"Jackson, Georgia welcomes Airman Kcey E. Ruiz home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62707\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jackson, Georgia welcomes Airman Kcey E. Ruiz home<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62707","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\/62707","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=62707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}