{"id":68395,"date":"2016-10-12T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68395"},"modified":"2016-10-12T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T12:30:35","slug":"2lt-wyatt-koch-and-spc-robert-shook-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68395","title":{"rendered":"2LT Wyatt Koch and SPC Robert Shook saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68396\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161011-A-YG824-003-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"NC GUARD Combat Engineers Save Nurse Stranded by Hurricane Matthew\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161011-A-YG824-003-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161011-A-YG824-003-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161011-A-YG824-003-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161011-A-YG824-003.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalguard.mil\/News\/Article\/969918\/north-carolina-guard-combat-engineers-save-nurse-stranded-by-hurricane-matthew\/\">NationalGuard.mil<\/a> which tells the story of 2nd Lieutenant Wyatt Koch and Specialist Robert Shook of the North Carolina National Guard&#8217;s 151st Engineer Battalion. The pair rescued a nurse who was stranded by Hurricane Matthew&#8217;s rising flood waters;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lt. Koch and his team began to drive down a flooded road outside of Wilson, when they heard over the radio that another team could hear a cry for help. Spc. Shook cut the engine off to the team\u2019s Humvee when he heard faint cries of \u201chelp!\u201d The three men got on the hood of the Humvee and began to use search lights to look for the person calling out.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson was the first person to spot the flood victim and Shook threw his rescue rope first but it was carried away by the current. Koch threw next, further upstream and it was able to make it to the stranded nurse. They began to pull her in, when she lost her grip still yards away from the rescue team.<\/p>\n<p>Shook jumped into the flood waters after the nurse and quickly retrieved her and began to buddy swim back to the Humvee. The current was too strong to fight so Shook began to tread water until another swift-water rescue boat pulled alongside the pair and pulled them into the boat. Shook placed a thermal blanket on the rescued nurse and the team was able to bring her safely back to dry land. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link from the NationalGuard.mil which tells the story of 2nd Lieutenant Wyatt &hellip; <a title=\"2LT Wyatt Koch and SPC Robert Shook saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68395\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2LT Wyatt Koch and SPC Robert Shook saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68395","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=68395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}