{"id":76763,"date":"2017-12-26T10:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76763"},"modified":"2017-12-26T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:52:58","slug":"sgt-joshua-sears-spc-garrett-doc-young-and-sgt-mark-andrisek-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76763","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Joshua Sears, Spc. Garrett \u201cDoc\u201d Young and Sgt. Mark Andrisek saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that Sergeant Joshua Sears, Specialist Garrett \u201cDoc\u201d Young and Sergeant Mark Andrisek, of 4th Platoon, Alpha Company, 127th Airborne Engineering Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, were awarded the Army Commendation Medal with Valor for their actions in November when the convoy they were riding in was attacked by an IED explosion;<\/p>\n

In 32 minutes, the wounded were already being treated at a field hospital, a timeline their leaders say saved two American lives.<\/p>\n

During a ceremony at Bagram on Dec. 20, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley and Sgt. Maj. of the Army Dan Dailey awarded Army Commendation Medals with V devices to Sears, Young and a third soldier, Sgt. Mark Andrisek, for their actions during the Nov. 13 incident in Kandahar province.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really recognizing the fact that everyone\u2019s alive because of them,\u201d said Capt. Danielle Villanueva, the soldiers\u2019 company commander. \u201cIt\u2019s an incredibly proud moment for us as a command.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes reports that Sergeant Joshua Sears, Specialist Garrett \u201cDoc\u201d Young and Sergeant Mark Andrisek, … Sgt. Joshua Sears, Spc. Garrett \u201cDoc\u201d Young and Sgt. Mark Andrisek saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76763","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=76763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}