{"id":25162,"date":"2024-03-29T14:29:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=mcclintock-matthew-quinn"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:49:06","slug":"mcclintock-matthew-quinn","status":"publish","type":"casualty","link":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=mcclintock-matthew-quinn","title":{"rendered":"McClintock, Matthew Quinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 1\/5\/2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong>: Sergeant 1st Class<\/p>\n<p><strong>Branch<\/strong>: U.S. Army<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation<\/strong>: Operation Freedom Sentinel<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"534\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SSGT-Matthew-Quinn-McClintock.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SSGT-Matthew-Quinn-McClintock.png 534w, https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SSGT-Matthew-Quinn-McClintock-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sgt. 1st Class Matthew McClintock has been posthumously awarded the Silver Star, the nation&#8217;s third-highest award for valor, for his actions during an hours-long firefight in southern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McClintock, a Special Forces engineer sergeant, was killed Jan. 5. He will be laid to rest Monday afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He died saving his friend&#8217;s life and went out [under fire] knowing that he could get hurt,&#8221; McClintock&#8217;s wife, Alexandra, told Army Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McClintock, 30, was assigned to 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group. He was killed and two others were wounded Jan. 5 in hours-long fighting near the city of Marjah, in Afghanistan&#8217;s Helmand province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her husband&#8217;s teammates have since told her that he left a compound, under fire, to find a new landing zone so a helicopter could land and evacuate his wounded teammate, Alexandra McClintock said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He ran out without even thinking about himself,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When he got to really do his job and do the job he loved, he came home a happy man.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew McClintock is also survived by the couple&#8217;s four-month-old son Declan.<\/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":[104],"casualty-tag":[106],"class_list":["post-25162","casualty","type-casualty","status-publish","hentry","casualty-operation-operation-freedom-sentinel","casualty-tag-idaho-casualty"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/25162","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\/25162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25582,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/25162\/revisions\/25582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"casualty-operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-operation&post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"casualty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-tag&post=25162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}