{"id":71312,"date":"2017-04-08T08:01:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71312"},"modified":"2017-04-08T10:09:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T14:09:52","slug":"air-force-tech-sgt-brian-claughsey-earns-a-silver-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71312","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brian Claughsey earns a Silver Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=71313\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71313\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Brian-Claughsey.jpg?resize=200%2C151\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71313\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Devtun sends us a link at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/04\/07\/air-force-nco-awarded-silver-star-heroism-afghanistan.html\">Military.com<\/a> about Air Force Tech. Sergeant Brian Claughsey and his Silver Star that he was awarded yesterday at Pope Field, North Carolina for his actions in Kunduz, Afghanistan on September 28, 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For four days, with no sleep and under constant fire from Taliban guns or mortars, Claughsey directed U.S. airstrikes during the battle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty long story and I don&#8217;t want to seal the work of the folks at Military.com so you should click over and read about the Tech Sergeant&#8217;s valor. This is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/articles\/four-day-firefight-combat-controller-earns-silver-star-for-afghanistan-valor\">Air Force Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lt. Col. Stewart Parker, the 21st Special Tactics Squadron commander, said he has enjoyed his time working with Claughsey. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d never know if you met him on the street the kind of hero he is because he just doesn\u2019t wear it on his sleeve,\u201d Parker said.  <\/p>\n<p>Claughsey said receiving the Silver Star is \u201creally humbling\u201d and shows him that the other combat controllers and Special Forces team members had confidence in him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s humbling to be a part of such a large team and such a joint force that did a really incredible job of getting the city back to the Afghan people, who deserved to have their city,\u201d he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Claughsey has also been selected to attend officer training and he&#8217;s on his way to become a second lieutenant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devtun sends us a link at Military.com about Air Force Tech. Sergeant Brian Claughsey and his Silver Star that he was awarded yesterday at Pope Field, North Carolina for his actions in Kunduz, Afghanistan on September 28, 2015. For four days, with no sleep and under constant fire from Taliban guns or mortars, Claughsey directed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Brian-Claughsey.jpg?fit=200%2C151&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-iyc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71312","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=71312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}