{"id":64204,"date":"2016-02-07T09:34:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64204"},"modified":"2016-02-07T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T14:34:22","slug":"petty-officer-2nd-class-alejandro-n-salabarria-earns-silver-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64204","title":{"rendered":"Petty Officer 2nd Class Alejandro N. Salabarria earns Silver Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64205\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Alejandro-N.-Salabarria-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandro N. Salabarria\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Alejandro-N.-Salabarria-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Alejandro-N.-Salabarria-302x333.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Alejandro-N.-Salabarria.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/navy\/navy-corpsman-to-get-silver-star-for-actions-in-afghanistan-1.392107\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that Petty Officer 2nd Class Alejandro N. Salabarria, a Navy Corpsman with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, Marine Raider Regiment will be awarded the Silver Star Medal for his heroism during 2014 in Afghanistan when an Afghan insugent committed a &#8220;green-on-blue&#8221; attack on several of the members of his unit;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several U.S. and Afghan personnel were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Salabarria engaged the rogue commando and dove between him and a severely wounded fellow corpsman, using his body as a shield to prevent further injuries, the Marine Corps said. Protecting the other corpsman with his body, he engaged and \u201celiminated\u201d the rogue commando. After securing the area, Salabarria rendered aid to two wounded team members and coordinated their evacuation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes reports that Petty Officer 2nd Class Alejandro N. Salabarria, a Navy Corpsman &hellip; <a title=\"Petty Officer 2nd Class Alejandro N. Salabarria earns Silver Star\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64204\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Petty Officer 2nd Class Alejandro N. Salabarria earns Silver Star<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64204","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=64204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}