{"id":78923,"date":"2018-04-16T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78923"},"modified":"2018-04-16T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:44:46","slug":"ranger-staff-sgt-michael-young-earns-silver-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78923","title":{"rendered":"Ranger Staff Sgt. Michael Young earns Silver Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78924\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78924\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Staff-Sgt.-Michael-Young-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Staff-Sgt.-Michael-Young-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Staff-Sgt.-Michael-Young-768x776.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Staff-Sgt.-Michael-Young-330x333.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Staff-Sgt.-Michael-Young.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Devtun sends us a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/army-ranger-awarded-silver-star-for-actions-in-deadly-terrifyingly-chaotic-fight-in-afghanistan-1.521975\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> which reports that Ranger Staff Sgt. Michael Young was awarded a Silver Star for his heroics performed on April 27, 2017 at Afghanistan\u2019s Nangarhar province.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Throughout the fight, the noncommissioned officer displayed an \u201cextraordinary ability to maintain composure in a terrifyingly chaotic situation,\u201d his award citation reads.<\/p>\n<p>Young, 28, was ultimately credited with saving the lives of 22 Rangers, according to the citation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an award that Young, a member of elite 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, never anticipated receiving, he told Stars and Stripes on Friday following the ceremony. But the honor served to validate the importance of that mission and the sacrifices made by Sgts. Joshua P. Rodgers and Cameron H. Thomas, who were killed during the operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devtun sends us a link to Stars &#038; Stripes which reports that Ranger Staff Sgt. Michael &hellip; <a title=\"Ranger Staff Sgt. Michael Young earns Silver Star\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78923\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ranger Staff Sgt. Michael Young earns Silver Star<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78923","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=78923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}