{"id":71186,"date":"2017-03-30T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T12:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71186"},"modified":"2017-03-30T08:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T12:35:28","slug":"staff-sergeant-victor-gomoimunn-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71186","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sergeant Victor Gomoimunn saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd sends us a story from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/soldier-scales-apartment-building-to-rescue-woman-baby-from-fire-in-south-korea-1.461031#.WNz4I2yrNZV\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> which tells the tale of Staff Sergeant Victor Gomoimunn in Osan, South Korea. the sergeant was driving with his family to the grocery store when he saw smoke coming from a home in his neighborhood. He encountered the home owner who told him that his wife, Sun Yong Helmer, and child were still in the apartment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNo one was doing anything \u2014 so I went,\u201d Gomoimunn said.<\/p>\n<p>He climbed up what he thought was a water pipe but turned out to be for gas and reached Helmer, a civilian employee who was working as a nurse at Camp Humphreys. Helmer and her husband have since been transferred to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Helmer was shocked to find a stranger outside her window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt horrified, but he brought big comfort,\u201d she said. \u201cHe tried to examine the rooms and see what he could do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While initially hoping to bring Helmer and child down, Gomoimunn decided it would be safer to bring Helmer and her 10-month-old daughter to the balcony and wait for firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty minutes later firefighters arrived and escorted all three out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf my wife and kids were stranded in a fire and I wasn\u2019t able to do anything, I would pray for someone who could,\u201d he told Stars and Stripes Wednesday in a telephone interview from the southeastern port city of Pohang, where he is participating in a military exercise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd sends us a story from the Stars &#038; Stripes which tells the tale of Staff &hellip; <a title=\"Staff Sergeant Victor Gomoimunn saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71186\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staff Sergeant Victor Gomoimunn saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71186","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=71186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}