{"id":81359,"date":"2018-08-24T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81359"},"modified":"2018-08-24T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:41:09","slug":"spc-nicole-mckenzie-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81359","title":{"rendered":"Spc. Nicole McKenzie Saving the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Spc.-Nicole-McKenzie-e1535113872859.jpg\" alt=\"Spc.-Nicole-McKenzie-\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2018\/08\/23\/army-national-guard-soldier-helps-save-boy-who-jumped-off-overpass\/\">Army Times<\/a> reports Spc. Nicole McKenzie witnessed a chilling incident, stopped and rendered aid to a disturbed 12 year old child.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a 12-year-old boy jumped off an overpass in New York, a National Guard soldier was there to help.<\/p>\n<p>Spc. Nicole McKenzie was driving home from the Yonkers armory when she saw a flash of red going over the guardrail on the Saw Mill Parkway, according to an Army news release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw what looked like the outline of a boy going over the side,&#8221; McKenzie said in the release. &#8220;I knew something was wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cable systems installer and maintainer with A Company, 101st Signal Battalion immediately pulled over to see how she could help.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie ran to the edge of the overpass, where a police officer was also assessing the scene \u2014 then McKenzie saw a boy lying on the rocks below.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier and police officer ran down the overpass, climbing over a fence and dropping 10 feet to the ground in order to reach the boy, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie learned the boy was from the Andrus campus in the Bronx, an organization that provides services to children with special needs and behavioral issues.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, staff from Andrus were talking to the boy when he jumped from the overpass.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie had recently finished combat lifesaver training with the National Guard, and she began to triage the boy\u2019s injuries.<\/p>\n<p>She and the police officer used splints from McKenzie\u2019s combat lifesaver bag to secure the boy\u2019s neck, arm and leg, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier also checked his vitals and stayed until medics arrived to take the boy to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wear the uniform every day because I want to help soldiers \u2014 I want to help people,\u201d McKenzie said in the release. \u201cThis is my family.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bravo Zulu, Spc. McKenzie- damned well done! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Times reports Spc. Nicole McKenzie witnessed a chilling incident, stopped and rendered aid to a &hellip; <a title=\"Spc. Nicole McKenzie Saving the World\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81359\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spc. Nicole McKenzie Saving the World<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81359","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}