{"id":91997,"date":"2019-10-17T08:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91997"},"modified":"2019-10-16T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:49:09","slug":"msg-mark-allen-dies-of-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91997","title":{"rendered":"MSG Mark Allen Dies of Wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sun<\/a> (UK) reports that Master Sgt Mark Allen, 46, has died of wounds he recieved 10 years ago while engaged in a firefight with the Taliban.\u00a0 Allen was searching for US Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Bergdahl had\u00a0abandoned his sentry post, wandered off and got lost\u00a0before being picked up by militiamen in June 2009.<\/p>\n

He was held for five years before being handed over by the Taliban in a controversial prisoner swap in 2014.<\/p>\n

One of those who risked his life looking for him was senior National Guard soldier Allen, who spent the next decade in a wheelchair unable to speak.<\/p>\n

An obituary says he died on Saturday in Loganville, Georgia, “from complications of an injury sustained while serving in Afghanistan”.<\/p>\n

His wife Shannon Allen said on Facebook: “I’m heartbroken to let you all know that my husband passed away peacefully yesterday morning with his family by his side.<\/p>\n

“Over ten years ago, he sustained a severe head injury while serving in Afghanistan, which caused him lifelong health problems.<\/p>\n

“These past few months, he has faced some significant illnesses, and his body was finally ready to rest.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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When they say that servicemen and women make sacrifices for our freedom, it is an understatement in this case.\u00a0 Bowe Bergdahl walks free today due to a lot of diplomatic and military efforts, not to mention “the trade.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sun (UK) reports that Master Sgt Mark Allen, 46, has died of wounds he recieved 10 years ago while engaged in a firefight with the Taliban.\u00a0 Allen was searching for US Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan. Bergdahl had\u00a0abandoned his sentry post, wandered off and got lost\u00a0before being picked up by militiamen in June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":91998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NINTCHDBPICT000531219702.jpg?fit=1862%2C1048&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-nVP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91997","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}