{"id":65349,"date":"2016-04-20T09:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65349"},"modified":"2016-04-20T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T13:36:51","slug":"guardsmen-win-best-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65349","title":{"rendered":"Guardsmen win &#8220;Best Ranger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65350\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Best-Ranger-2016-500x193.jpg\" alt=\"Best Ranger 2016\" width=\"500\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Best-Ranger-2016-500x193.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Best-Ranger-2016-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Best-Ranger-2016-768x297.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Best-Ranger-2016.jpg 815w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/166329\/Army_Guard_Soldiers_win_Best_Ranger_Competition_for_first_time_in_competition_history\/\">Army.mil<\/a> reports that for the first time in the 33 year history of the Lt. Gen. David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition, a team from the National Guard won first place;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Capt. Robert Killian, from the Colorado Army National Guard, and Staff Sgt. Erich Friedlein, with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, were named the Army&#8217;s best Rangers after the 60-hour crucible came to an end Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Competing five times, with two second-place finishes in 2014 and 2015, Killian, a detachment commander with B Company, 5th Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), said the win was humbling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a big thing for the Guard and I&#8217;m humbled and honored to be the first,&#8221; Killian said. &#8220;I&#8217;m ecstatic and honored and I hope I&#8217;m an inspiration for others.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65351\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65351\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Best-Ranger-2016-finishline-500x306.jpg\" alt=\"Best Ranger 2016 finishline\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Best-Ranger-2016-finishline-500x306.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Best-Ranger-2016-finishline-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Best-Ranger-2016-finishline.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army.mil reports that for the first time in the 33 year history of the Lt. Gen. &hellip; <a title=\"Guardsmen win &#8220;Best Ranger&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65349\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guardsmen win &#8220;Best Ranger&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-guard","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65349","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=65349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}