{"id":72961,"date":"2017-06-22T11:06:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72961"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:06:41","slug":"the-last-moments-of-fire-controlman-1st-class-gary-leo-rehm-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72961","title":{"rendered":"The last moments of Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=72962\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gary-leo-rehm-jr-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gary-leo-rehm-jr-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gary-leo-rehm-jr-399x333.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/gary-leo-rehm-jr.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been holding off posting this story for a few days now because I&#8217;m not sure how family members know how this all came to pass, but I trust our buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/uncle-gary-rehm-died-uss-fitzgerald-crash-speaks-out-saving-his-kids\/\">Susan Katz Keating who writes for People Magazine<\/a>, so here we go;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been reported that Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr., one of the sailors aboard USS FITZGERALD last week when it was struck amidships by the container ship ACX CRYSTAL near Japan, went below decks several times to rescue his &#8220;kids&#8221; who were trapped below;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rehm saved up to 20 lives by going into dangerous parts of the ship that had been breached in the collision and helping his fellow sailors get to safety, his uncle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe went back to get the other ones and I guess from what I understand they had to close the hatch, because the ship was taking on water,\u201d [His uncle] Stanley Rehm told WKYC. \u201cHe died a hero trying to save the people on his ship.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Navy has been silent on the issue of the circumstances of Rehm&#8217;s heroism, but, apparently the story has been told by folks who were there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been holding off posting this story for a few days now because I&#8217;m not sure &hellip; <a title=\"The last moments of Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72961\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The last moments of Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72961","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=72961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}