{"id":76912,"date":"2018-01-04T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76912"},"modified":"2018-01-04T07:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T12:57:24","slug":"marine-sgt-justin-erler-and-cpl-matthew-dungan-earn-navy-and-marine-corps-commendation-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76912","title":{"rendered":"Marine Sgt. Justin Erler and Cpl. Matthew Dungan earn  Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76913\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76913\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Marine-Sgt.-Justin-Erler-and-Cpl.-Matthew-Dungan-486x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Marine-Sgt.-Justin-Erler-and-Cpl.-Matthew-Dungan-486x333.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Marine-Sgt.-Justin-Erler-and-Cpl.-Matthew-Dungan-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Marine-Sgt.-Justin-Erler-and-Cpl.-Matthew-Dungan-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Marine-Sgt.-Justin-Erler-and-Cpl.-Matthew-Dungan.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We discussed Marine Master Sergeant Hector Trujillo who stopped on his way to work to rescue a local from his burning car. The Master Sergeant was subsequently struck by a passing military truck and needed rescuing himself. That&#8217;s when Marine Sergeant Justin Erler and Corporal Matthew Dungan arrived on the scene and, thanks to their Marine Corps training, they were able to save Truillo&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corp was quick to reward the pair with Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marines-honored-for-saving-life-of-comrade-injured-helping-okinawa-crash-victims-1.505015\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Trujillo \u201cis alive today, absolutely, 100 percent because of the actions of these two individuals [Erler and Dungan],\u201d III MEF commander Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson said during the ceremony. \u201cThat is the only reason he is alive \u2026 these are two great young Marines that stood up and made a difference when it counted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Trujillo\u2019s condition has slowly improved and he is now breathing on his own and responding to his wife, Maria, the fact that he is still recovering from grievous injuries hardly left his rescuers in the mood for celebrating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discussed Marine Master Sergeant Hector Trujillo who stopped on his way to work to rescue &hellip; <a title=\"Marine Sgt. Justin Erler and Cpl. Matthew Dungan earn  Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76912\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine Sgt. Justin Erler and Cpl. Matthew Dungan earn  Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76912","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\/76912","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=76912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}