{"id":8346,"date":"2015-09-24T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8346"},"modified":"2015-09-24T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:00:40","slug":"unsung-heroes-the-heroic-last-stand-of-two-marines-in-ramadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/24\/unsung-heroes-the-heroic-last-stand-of-two-marines-in-ramadi\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSUNG HEROES: The Heroic Last Stand Of Two Marines In Ramadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"tpArticleSubtitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/usmc1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8347\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/usmc1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"usmc\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"tpArticleSubtitle\">Cpl. Jonathan Yale and Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter bravely sacrificed themselves to stop a suicide bomber, saving the lives of 150 comrades.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tpArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"entry-content \">\n<p>On April 22, 2008, in Ramadi, Iraq, two Marine infantrymen stood their ground and opened fire on a truck carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives as it barreled toward their post and the 150 Marines and Iraqi police inside the perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>The truck stopped just shy of Cpl. Jonathan Yale and Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter, its windshield and the driver behind the wheel both blown away in a hail of gunfire. Then it detonated, killing the two Marines and leveling a city a block.<\/p>\n<p>The attack, the Marines\u2019 final stand, and their sacrifice all took place in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Haerter and Yale, were posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for their actions, which were later recounted by Iraqi police present that day and captured on a security camera,<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/medal-of-honor-marines-truckbomb-2014-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/unsung-heroes-the-heroic-last-stand-of-two-marines-in-ramadi\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=tp-today\">Task and Purpose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cpl. Jonathan Yale and Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter bravely sacrificed themselves to stop a suicide bomber, saving the lives of 150 comrades. On April 22, 2008, in Ramadi, Iraq, two Marine infantrymen stood their ground and opened fire on a truck carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives as it barreled toward their post and the 150&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1247,1286,1860,1911],"tags":[2283,2284,1582,2285,2286],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}