{"id":220651,"date":"2014-07-28T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123418491"},"modified":"2014-07-28T17:11:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:11:13","slug":"af-captain-receives-commendation-for-act-of-courage-quick-decision-making-possibly-saved-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220651","title":{"rendered":"AF captain receives commendation for act of courage: Quick decision making possibly saved lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123418491\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2014\/07\/140721-F-00000-001.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Capt. Robert Wray, 21st Space Wing commander&#8217;s action group, was presented the Air Force Commendation Medal July 16 here for off-duty actions where he crawled through glass to evacuate three people from an overturned smoking vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>On March 3, 2013, at approximately 1:30 p.m., Wray and two other Civil Air Patrol members were traveling north on I-25 to Centennial, Colorado, when a sport-utility vehicle drifted off the road headed south. It hit an embankment and flipped end over end one-and-a-half times, finally coming to a rest on its roof. The three occupants of the vehicle were coming from Northern Colorado carrying camping equipment, which was violently thrown around and outside the vehicle. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123418491\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}