{"id":78113,"date":"2018-03-07T08:14:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78113"},"modified":"2018-03-07T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:14:20","slug":"staff-sergeant-adams-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78113","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sergeant Adams saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78114\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SSG-Adams-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SSG-Adams-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SSG-Adams-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SSG-Adams-466x333.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SSG-Adams.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/special-forces-member-gets-soldier-s-medal-for-saving-lives-after-deadly-crash-1.515187#gallery\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> tells the story of Staff Sergeant Adams, a member of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, who, along with his wife witnessed an automobile accident. They leaped into action;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> One passenger, 26-year-old Brittany Goodman of Salisbury, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A child, 12-year-old Colby Springle of Angier, was trapped in the vehicle and died shortly after being extracted.<\/p>\n<p>Springle was the son of [Lillie] Mingin, who survived the wreck alongside another of her sons, 7-year-old Eric Mason Mingin of Fuquay-Varina.<\/p>\n<p>Army officials said the pair likely would not have lived were it not for Adams, who pulled them from the vehicle before a fire could start and provided lifesaving medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his actions two years later, Adams said there was no time to wait for emergency personnel or to see if others on the highway would stop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were the first there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was my responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As his wife called 9-1-1, Adams ran to the wreckage and went to work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just did all I could do,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> SSG Adams was awarded the Soldiers Medal for his efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes tells the story of Staff Sergeant Adams, a member of 1st Battalion, 3rd &hellip; <a title=\"Staff Sergeant Adams saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78113\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staff Sergeant Adams saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78113","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=78113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}