{"id":18415,"date":"2024-03-29T14:15:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=carl-richard-paul"},"modified":"2024-05-12T21:33:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T03:33:27","slug":"carl-richard-paul","status":"publish","type":"casualty","link":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=carl-richard-paul","title":{"rendered":"Carl, Richard Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 5\/9\/2003<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong>: Corporal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Branch<\/strong>: U.S. Army<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation<\/strong>: Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"431\" data-id=\"25471\" src=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SGT-Richard-P-Carl.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SGT-Richard-P-Carl.png 307w, https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SGT-Richard-P-Carl-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard P. Carl served with the 571st Air Medical Company out of Fort Carson, Colorado and was posthumously promoted from corporal to sergeant in a ceremony in Iraq. He died May 9th, 2003 when his Black Hawk air medical helicopter snagged a power wire across the Tigris River as it took off during the rescue of a wounded Iraqi child, and flipped over into the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCorporal Carl is a tremendous example of our military\u2019s commitment to risk life and limb to help the innocent Iraqi civilians wounded in the war,\u201d said U.S. Senator Michael Crapo. \u201cHe went to the Middle East to fight for our freedom with valor and courage in this time of national crisis and died in defense of his country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He leaves behind his wife, a daughter and son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"casualty-operation":[100],"casualty-tag":[106],"class_list":["post-18415","casualty","type-casualty","status-publish","hentry","casualty-operation-operation-iraqi-freedom","casualty-tag-idaho-casualty"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/18415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/casualty"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/18415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25472,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/18415\/revisions\/25472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"casualty-operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-operation&post=18415"},{"taxonomy":"casualty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-tag&post=18415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}