{"id":72226,"date":"2017-05-22T13:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72226"},"modified":"2017-05-22T13:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:21:52","slug":"captain-andrew-kim-gets-upgraded-silver-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72226","title":{"rendered":"Captain Andrew Kim gets upgraded Silver Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=72228\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capt.-Andrew-Kim-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capt.-Andrew-Kim-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capt.-Andrew-Kim-345x333.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Capt.-Andrew-Kim.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/military\/sd-me-silver-star-20170516-story.html\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a> reports that the Marine Corps upgraded the award that Captain Andrew Kim received for his actions in Iraq on August 6, 2003 from a Bronze Star to a Silver Star.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Iraqi man approached Kim, his team chief, a linguist and a source. He suddenly drew a pistol and shot Kim\u2019s team chief in the neck.<\/p>\n<p>A sergeant at the time, Kim immediately returned fire, killing the assassin. He was then hit repeatedly by small arms fire from the rear. Disregarding his own wounds, Kim ushered his fallen team chief into a vehicle and exited the ambush\u2019s kill zone, pursued by five Iraqis in a white pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>His vehicle sprayed by volleys of enemy fire, Kim drove to a light armored reconnaissance security element and ordered a deadly counterattack on the enemy &#8212; \u201cbold\u201d actions the Marine Corps concluded showed \u201cundaunted courage and complete dedication to duty,\u201d plus \u201cgallantry and effectiveness under fire\u201d that \u201csaved the lives of all those conducting the mission,\u201d according to this award citation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the Marine Corps upgraded the award that Captain Andrew Kim &hellip; <a title=\"Captain Andrew Kim gets upgraded Silver Star\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72226\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Captain Andrew Kim gets upgraded Silver Star<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72226","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\/72226","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=72226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}