{"id":65417,"date":"2016-04-24T13:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65417"},"modified":"2016-04-24T15:04:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T19:04:33","slug":"captain-bradley-grimm-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65417","title":{"rendered":"Captain Bradley Grimm saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65418\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Bradley-Grimm-242x333.jpg\" alt=\"Bradley Grimm\" width=\"242\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Bradley-Grimm.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Bradley-Grimm-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/04\/21\/politics\/us-soldier-saves-denmark-school\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, Captain Bradley Grimm, while serving in the US Army in Iraq, uncovered actionable intelligence that prevented a school bombing half a world away in Denmark. He was awarded the Danish Defense Medal for Special Meritorious Effort by the Danish government when the information he provided them resulted in an arrest and recovery of homemade explosives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The information he provided helped to foil the plot and resulted in an arrest and the confiscation of explosives&#8221; in Denmark, [Colonel  Steve Warren, a spokesman for the coalition fighting ISIS] said Wednesday. &#8220;Brad&#8217;s work likely saved the lives of Danish citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grimm, who was based at al-Asad airbase in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, &#8220;did all of this voluntarily in addition to his duties,&#8221; Warren said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Danish parliament recently provided authorization for an expanded role of their military in the fight against ISIS to include ground combat operations. The planned attack was probably in response to that decision. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalguard.mil\/News\/ArticleView\/tabid\/5563\/Article\/740971\/texas-guardsman-foils-terror-plot-in-denmark-awarded-high-danish-defense-medal.aspx\">The National Guard<\/a> says that Captain Grimm is a Texas Guardsman;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a Danish officer, not only is the award one of the highest awards in Denmark, but also the special meritorious duty citation makes this award very rare. The medal is awarded infrequently, even to Danes, and is roughly equivalent to something more than a Legion of Merit, but less than a Silver Star.<\/p>\n<p>The medal was originally awarded for meritorious deployment outside of Denmark, but after 2010, the Danish government began awarding it to civilians or military personnel for meritorious service for the betterment of the Danish Defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Capt. Grimm&#8217;s actions had a monumental impact on our allies in Denmark, and consequently on our coalition in the fight against international terrorism,&#8221; said Maj. Gen. John F. Nichols, the adjutant general of Texas. &#8220;He embodies what our force stands for \u2013 Duty, Honor, Texas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, Captain Bradley Grimm, while serving in the US Army in Iraq, uncovered actionable &hellip; <a title=\"Captain Bradley Grimm saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65417\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Captain Bradley Grimm saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65417","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=65417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}