{"id":72719,"date":"2017-06-12T14:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72719"},"modified":"2017-06-12T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:36:34","slug":"samuel-v-wilson-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72719","title":{"rendered":"Samuel V. Wilson passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=72720\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LTG_Samuel_V._Wilson_Director_of_the_DIA-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LTG_Samuel_V._Wilson_Director_of_the_DIA-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LTG_Samuel_V._Wilson_Director_of_the_DIA.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Liberal Civvy tells us that a legend has passed. 93-year-old Samuel V. Wilson enlisted in the Virginia National Guard at the age of 16 in 1940, lying about his age. He rose through the ranks of the 116th Infantry as a squad leader, platoon sergeant and acting first sergeant until he went to Officer Candidate School becoming Second Lieutenant at the age of 19. He stayed at the Infantry School as an instructor until he volunteered for the precursor of the Ranger Battalions,  5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), popularly known as Merrill&#8217;s Marauders, and was assigned with them in the India-Burma theater of operations as a captain. After his assignment there, he returned to the US, it was discovered that he&#8217;d lied about his age and he was demoted to 2nd Lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/retired-us-army-lt-gen-sam-wilson-dead-at-93\/2017\/06\/11\/ea655dc8-4ef7-11e7-b74e-0d2785d3083d_story.html?utm_term=.194ebe8d90e4\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the end of the war, he was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, which was the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, in Southeast Asia. He later worked as a CIA officer in West Berlin and a defense attache at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during the Cold War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He retired as a Lieutenant General with two Silver Star Medals and a Bronze Star for valor. He passed on Saturday from his battle against lung cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Civvy tells us that a legend has passed. 93-year-old Samuel V. Wilson enlisted in the &hellip; <a title=\"Samuel V. Wilson passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72719\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samuel V. Wilson passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72719","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=72719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}