{"id":88876,"date":"2019-07-12T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88876"},"modified":"2019-07-12T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T00:16:08","slug":"first-ever-medal-of-honor-video-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88876","title":{"rendered":"First Ever Medal of Honor Video Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chapman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88877 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chapman-500x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chapman-500x276.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chapman-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chapman-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/chapman.jpg 901w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an article by the <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2019\/07\/watch-the-first-medal-of-honor-heroics-ever-captured-on-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Military News<\/a>, they write about Air Force Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman, a combat controller, who was killed during a fierce battle against al Qaida fighters in Takur Ghar, Afghanistan, March 4, 2002.\u00a0 According to the video&#8217;s narration, Chapman would eventually be awarded <strong>two<\/strong> Medal of Honors for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>In the following narrated video, it shows all that happened that day.\u00a0 The first ever video recorded of events surrounding a Medal of Honor.\u00a0 Extremely compelling.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The First Medal of Honor Ever Recorded\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3oKMjTqdTYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-13T04:55:27-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3oKMjTqdTYo?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3oKMjTqdTYo\" data-author_name=\"Dan Schilling Books\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@danschillingbooks3014\" data-height=\"281\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/3oKMjTqdTYo\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"The First Medal of Honor Ever Recorded\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>A book is being written about Chapman&#8217;s heroics and the book has already been optioned for a feature film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/285px-Airman_to_be_awarded_Medal_of_Honor_180727-F-F3227-1005.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-88884 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/285px-Airman_to_be_awarded_Medal_of_Honor_180727-F-F3227-1005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/285px-Airman_to_be_awarded_Medal_of_Honor_180727-F-F3227-1005.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/285px-Airman_to_be_awarded_Medal_of_Honor_180727-F-F3227-1005-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/285px-Airman_to_be_awarded_Medal_of_Honor_180727-F-F3227-1005-243x333.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article by the American Military News, they write about Air Force Tech. Sgt. John &hellip; <a title=\"First Ever Medal of Honor Video Recording\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88876\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Ever Medal of Honor Video Recording<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":88878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[449,435,450],"class_list":["post-88876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force","tag-cmoh","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-moh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88876","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88892,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88876\/revisions\/88892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}