{"id":42713,"date":"2014-04-09T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=42713"},"modified":"2014-04-08T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:03:39","slug":"lance-wyatt-navy-corpsman-awarded-nmccm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=42713","title":{"rendered":"Lance Wyatt; Navy corpsman awarded NMCCM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe New Bern Sun Journal<\/a> tells the story of Petty Officer 1st Class Lance Wyatt, a Navy corpsman who earned the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for valor during his deployment to Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

On his first day in Afghanistan, he treated a triple amputee. During another operation, Wyatt treated six critical patients. It tested his training, he said, and he worried about having enough medical supplies.<\/p>\n

During the course of Wyatt\u2019s deployment, according to the citation, he was credited with treating 32 wounded Afghans, both military and civilian, many of whom suffered amputations, gunshot or shrapnel wounds and traumatic brain injuries. Within the citation, Wyatt is said to have performed lifesaving measures under enemy fire, many times, returning fire himself to protect his patients from additional wounds and repel the ongoing enemy attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a corpsman means the world to me … and being called \u2018doc\u2019 means a great deal to me,\u201d he said. \u201cYou earned the name \u2018doc,\u2019 it wasn\u2019t just given.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Bern Sun Journal tells the story of Petty Officer 1st Class Lance Wyatt, a Navy corpsman who earned the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for valor during his deployment to Afghanistan; On his first day in Afghanistan, he treated a triple amputee. During another operation, Wyatt treated six critical patients. It tested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-b6V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}