{"id":68982,"date":"2016-11-17T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68982"},"modified":"2016-11-17T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:44:24","slug":"staff-sergeant-keaton-thiems-silver-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68982","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sergeant Keaton Thiem&#8217;s Silver Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68983\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68983\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Keaton-Thiem-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"Keaton Thiem\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Keaton-Thiem-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Keaton-Thiem-313x333.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Keaton-Thiem.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Frankie sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwfdailynews.com\/news\/20161116\/hurlburt-combat-controller-earns-silver-star\">a link to the story<\/a> of Air Force Staff Sergeant Keaton Thiem and his Silver Star Medal actions in Afghanistan on February 22nd while he was deployed with an Army Special Forces Team in Bagram Province;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While controlling air power, he led a recovery team into a hail of heavy enemy fire several times to rescue pinned-down Afghan commandos who had been separated from the main force.<\/p>\n<p>In a small group and apart from the main element, Thiem was taking direct fire from enemies in defensive fighting positions. He made his way through a hail of gunfire in open terrain for 100 meters to locate and account for a separated friendly element before calling in additional airstrikes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/articles\/staff-sergeant-keaton-thiem-silver-star\">Air Force Times<\/a> has a more complete narrative of the events that earned the young sergeant the Silver Star and you should read it there and not here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankie sends us a link to the story of Air Force Staff Sergeant Keaton Thiem and &hellip; <a title=\"Staff Sergeant Keaton Thiem&#8217;s Silver Star\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68982\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staff Sergeant Keaton Thiem&#8217;s Silver Star<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68982","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=68982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}