{"id":9384,"date":"2009-04-03T11:34:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9384"},"modified":"2009-04-03T11:42:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T16:42:05","slug":"marine-awarded-silver-star-for-actions-at-wanat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9384","title":{"rendered":"Marine awarded Silver Star for actions at Wanat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of us are fans of tankerbabe so you&#8217;ve all read <a href=\"http:\/\/tankerbabelc985.vox.com\/library\/post\/2-503-chosen-few-remember-and-honored-for-their-actions-on-13-july-2009-at-the-battle-at-wanat.html\" target=\"_blank\">her excellent post about the SIlver Stars awarded<\/a> to the members of Co. C 2\/503rd 173rd Airborne Brigade for their actions at the tiny Vehicle Patrol Base at Wanat, Afghanistan on July 13, 2008.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>This morning at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=61787\" target=\"_blank\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>, Cindy Fisher writes about Marine Corporal Jason Jones who was also at Wanat that morning and was also awarded the Silver Star for his actions there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His medal citation recounts how he and another Marine dashed 35 meters through enemy fire to rescue a seriously wounded Afghan soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Then they heard a call from U.S. soldiers that their observation post was about to be overrun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had to do something,&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>He and a fellow Marine grabbed machine guns and ammunition and sprinted more than 100 yards through enemy fire to man the post and repel the attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure those Taliban knuckleheads would have thought twice if they&#8217;d known it was a full platoon of US paratroopers AND three Marines they were attacking in that tiny patrol base. Honestly, I&#8217;m in awe of these guys &#8211; a handful of men beat back hundreds of fanatics. How can anyone not be awed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of us are fans of tankerbabe so you&#8217;ve all read her excellent post about the &hellip; <a title=\"Marine awarded Silver Star for actions at Wanat\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9384\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine awarded Silver Star for actions at Wanat<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384","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=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}