{"id":73671,"date":"2017-07-29T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73671"},"modified":"2017-07-29T07:24:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T11:24:20","slug":"chief-warrant-officer-3-jesse-rhymes-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73671","title":{"rendered":"Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jesse Rhymes saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chief Tango sends us a link to the story<\/a> of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jesse Rhymes who was driving on a country road when the car in front of him did a few barrel rolls and came to rest in a ditch. The engine burst into flames as the Chief was calling 9-1-1;<\/p>\n

The front of the vehicle was fast filling with smoke, Rhymes recalled. The victim’s legs were trapped, and there was no way to extricate him from the driver’s side of the vehicle. So Rhymes crawled through the passenger side window of the upside-down car.<\/p>\n

“When the flames started coming through the windshield, I was hoping it wasn’t going to blow,” Rhymes said.<\/p>\n

Rhymes managed to get the victim and himself out of the car and to safety. He administered first aid until emergency responders arrived. By then, the entire car was engulfed in flames, which firefighters were able to extinguish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Army awarded Rhymes the Soldiers’ Medal at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington;<\/p>\n

“I just did what any Soldier would do,” he said. “I just knew if I didn’t go in, (the victim) wasn’t going to make it out.’<\/p>\n

When he arrived home, he was covered in his own blood, from glass he’d crawled through in the vehicle. Although his wife, Sally, said she was shocked to see her husband in that condition, she wasn’t surprised he’d perform such an heroic act.<\/p>\n

“That’s just the kind of person he is,” she said. “I thought he was a little crazy crawling into a burning vehicle, but he’s a wonderful person, a wonderful husband and a wonderful father. I’m proud, very proud of him.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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