{"id":81238,"date":"2018-08-20T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81238"},"modified":"2018-08-19T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T01:01:22","slug":"marines-unit-puts-him-in-for-purple-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81238","title":{"rendered":"Marine\u2019s Unit Puts Him in for Purple Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Marine Corps Times, the Marine was shot in the head. However, the bullet\u00a0bounced off his helmet. He\u2019s being put in for a Purple Heart. Would a CAR be more appropriate? \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/08\/16\/marine-shot-in-the-head-in-sangin-returns-to-full-duty\/\">https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/08\/16\/marine-shot-in-the-head-in-sangin-returns-to-full-duty\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the NYT article (below) he was seen by a medic as standard procedure and returned to duty thereafter, per Maj. Joshua C. Benson, a Marine Corps spokesman, in an email.<\/p>\n<p>There is insufficient information in the MC Times article to form a real opinion this. It does not say that he was hit hard enough to develop a concussion from the impact, only that the round bounced off of his helmet. That could generate a concussion, or leave him unconscious, or damage his hearing sufficiently to impair his ability to do his job in the field.<\/p>\n<p>So did the Marine in the 325<sup>th<\/sup> get a concussion, or was he rendered unconscious briefly? The article just doesn\u2019t say, and I\u2019m not willing to compromise anyone\u2019s security over there by sticking my nose into it.<\/p>\n<p>This New York Times article does have a small amount of additional information, however, including news that an Army Special Forces soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack during that same time period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/13\/us\/politics\/special-forces-soldier-killed-afghanistan.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/13\/us\/politics\/special-forces-soldier-killed-afghanistan.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Marine Corps Times, the Marine was shot in the head. However, the bullet\u00a0bounced &hellip; <a title=\"Marine\u2019s Unit Puts Him in for Purple Heart\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81238\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine\u2019s Unit Puts Him in for Purple Heart<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81238","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}