{"id":66543,"date":"2016-06-26T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66543"},"modified":"2016-06-26T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T11:23:09","slug":"gunnery-sergeant-geann-pereira-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66543","title":{"rendered":"Gunnery Sergeant Geann Pereira saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><figure id=\"attachment_66544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66544\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66544\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66544\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Geann-F.-Pereira-249x333.jpg\" alt=\"Gunnery Sergeant Geann F. Pereira in Kabul, Afghanistan.\" width=\"249\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-large wp-image-66544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Geann-F.-Pereira-249x333.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Geann-F.-Pereira-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Geann-F.-Pereira.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gunnery Sergeant Geann F. Pereira in Kabul, Afghanistan.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/center><\/p>\n<p>HMC Ret sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/06\/21\/marine-recognized-bravery-after-helicopter-crash-killed-two-airmen\/86200646\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a> which reports that Gunnery Sergeant Geann Pereira will be awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for what he did when a coalition Puma Mk 2 helicopter crashed near where he was working at Camp Resolute Support in Kabul on October 11, 2015;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first person he pulled from the aircraft was dead. Using a bolt cutter, he freed two others, but they were unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>After the first five to 10 minutes, Pereira realized that the helicopter was leaking a lot of fuel and some of the wreckage was smoldering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere [were] some sparks around \u2014 I can\u2019t really say it was fire, but there were definitely sparks and a lot of smoke,\u201d Pereira said. \u201cStaying in there, it was just hard to breathe with all the jet fuel and smoke all around you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though he was concerned the helicopter could explode at any moment, Pereira stayed inside for hours because he could hear one person who was still alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could hear him yelling for help, saying it was hard to breathe in there,\u201d Pereira said. \u201cI just kind of stayed there with him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should read the rest of the story at the link. Also, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvtimes.com\/2015\/08\/05\/for-marine-siblings-service-reflects-gratitude-to-adopted-country\/\">an article about him and his sister<\/a> who was also a Marine for eight years;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are numerous reasons why a young man or woman would choose to join the military. For Vineyard siblings Genainna and Geann Pereira, natives of Brazil, the decision to enlist in the Marines arose out of a sense of gratitude for all that the United States, their adopted country, has provided to their family.<\/p>\n<p>Gunnery Sergeant Geann Pereira, 33, Martha\u2019s Vineyard Regional High School class of 2001, is currently stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>His sister, Genainna Pereira, served eight years in the Marine Corps prior to leaving the service in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMC Ret sends us a link to the Marine Corps Times which reports that Gunnery Sergeant &hellip; <a title=\"Gunnery Sergeant Geann Pereira saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66543\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gunnery Sergeant Geann Pereira saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66543","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=66543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}