{"id":77643,"date":"2018-02-11T14:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77643"},"modified":"2018-02-11T17:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:25:49","slug":"air-force-surgeons-to-get-valor-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77643","title":{"rendered":"Air Force surgeons to get Bronze Star Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77644\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77644\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AST-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AST-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AST-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AST-500x261.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AST.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/02\/09\/surgical-team-on-front-lines-of-isis-war-to-receive-bronze-stars\/?utm_content=tp-facebook&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social\">The Air Force Times<\/a> reports that a five-man surgical team is going to be awarded Bronze Stars for their efforts in the war against ISIS in 2016;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Emergency medicine physician Lt. Col. Ben Mitchell, nurse anesthetist Lt. Col. Matthew Uber, surgeon Maj. Justin Manley, and emergency room nurse Capt. Cade Reedy of the 720th Operations Support Squadron will receive Bronze Stars for their work assisting civilians and local fighters wounded in the fight against ISIS for two weeks in the summer of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Jonathan Chin, another SOST airman who was on a different deployment, will also receive a Bronze Star.<\/p>\n<p>A SOST consists of six mobile surgical specialists with advanced training who can deploy to the field to save lives as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, Uber, Manley and Reedy along with emergency room nurse Maj. Nelson Pacheco and respiratory therapist Technical Sgt. Richard Holguin, at least one of whom has already received his Bronze Star and has separated from the Air Force worked around the clock during their deployment to the undisclosed location. They treated 750 patients, responded to 19 mass-casualty events, conducted 16 life-saving surgeries, and treated victims of a chemical weapon attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My son is currently deployed with another Air Force Austere Surgical Team somewhere, making his dad proud. (Don&#8217;t tell his mom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Times reports that a five-man surgical team is going to be awarded Bronze &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force surgeons to get Bronze Star Medals\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77643\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force surgeons to get Bronze Star Medals<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77643","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=77643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}