{"id":69562,"date":"2016-12-26T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T15:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69562"},"modified":"2016-12-26T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T15:26:20","slug":"master-sgt-greg-gibbs-distinguished-flying-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69562","title":{"rendered":"Master Sgt. Greg Gibbs&#8217; Distinguished Flying Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69563\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69563\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Master-Sgt.-Greg-Gibbs-280x333.jpg\" alt=\"Master Sgt. Greg Gibbs\" width=\"280\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Master-Sgt.-Greg-Gibbs-280x333.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Master-Sgt.-Greg-Gibbs-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Master-Sgt.-Greg-Gibbs.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/915655\/flying-cross-for-kafb-hero.html?utm_medium=Social&#038;utm_campaign=Echobox&#038;utm_source=Facebook&#038;utm_term=Autofeed#link_time=1482736515\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> comes the news that the Air Force will award Master Sergeant Greg Gibbs of the 512th Rescue Squadron at Kirtland Air Force Base the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in Shorbak District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan five years ago;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gibbs was a door gunner on an HH-60G Pave Hawk during the mission to rescue a squad of Army Pathfinders who had been decimated by improvised explosive devices.<\/p>\n<p>On the last evacuation, the aircraft lost power, and Gibbs guided the pilots down the valley to land just a few feet outside the minefield. Once the aircraft was operational again, Gibbs calculated that they could fly the patient to higher medical care on emergency fuel.<\/p>\n<p>When the patient was transferred to the hospital, the aircraft had only five minutes of fuel left.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet he was glad that he paid attention in Algebra class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Journal comes the news that the Air Force will award Master Sergeant Greg &hellip; <a title=\"Master Sgt. Greg Gibbs&#8217; Distinguished Flying Cross\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69562\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Master Sgt. Greg Gibbs&#8217; Distinguished Flying Cross<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69562","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\/69562","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=69562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}