{"id":1112,"date":"2023-03-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2023-04-03T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:34:41","slug":"veteranoftheday-army-and-marine-veteran-william-mcleroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"#VeteranOfTheDay Army and Marine Veteran William McLeroy"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 28, 2023: William McLeroy<\/h2>\n
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Today\u2019s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army and Marine Veteran William \u201cBud\u201d McLeroy, who is participating in this week\u2019s #wintersportsclinic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

William \u201cBud\u201d McLeroy was born in San Diego, California. He joined the Marine Corps in May 1980 and completed basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. He attended engineering training at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. <\/p>\n

McLeroy also attended several other schools throughout his career, including the Army Infantry School, Basic Noncommissioned Officer School, and the Sergeant Major Academy, where he ranked within the top 5 of his graduating class.<\/p>\n

After serving six years in active Marine Corps, McLeroy served an additional 27 years in the Army Reserve. In 1993, he underwent<\/a> surgical amputation after an auto accident. After retiring from military service, he joined the Federal Fire Department in San Diego, California, as a firefighter and diver. <\/p>\n

According to McLeroy, he was the first amputee to deploy for Operation Iraqi Freedom. There, he was awarded a Purple Heart from an injury while providing aid to Iraqi civilians during a firefight. He also served in Okinawa, Japan, with the 3rd Foreign Service Support Group; Camp Dakota, Honduras; Camps Humphrey and Pohang in Korea; and at Kaiserslautern, Germany.<\/p>\n

McLeroy lives in San Diego with his wife, Tina, and his four children. This week, he competes in the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic.<\/p>\n

We honor his service and wish him well in his events.<\/p>\n

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Nominate a Veteran for\u00a0<\/strong>#VeteranOfTheDay<\/a><\/h2>\n

Do you want to light up the face of a special Veteran? Have you been wondering how to tell your Veteran they are special to you? You\u2019re in luck! VA\u2019s #VeteranOfTheDay social media feature is an opportunity to highlight your Veteran and his\/her service.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to nominate a Veteran. All it takes is an email to\u00a0newmedia@va.gov<\/a>\u00a0with as much information as you can put together, along with some good photos. Visit our\u00a0blog post about nominating<\/a>\u00a0to learn how to create the best submission.<\/p>\n

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Writer:<\/strong> Matthew Rosine, Khaled Maalouf<\/p>\n

Researchers: <\/strong>Raphael Romea<\/p>\n

Graphic Designer: <\/strong>Kiki Kelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 28, 2023: William McLeroy Today\u2019s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army and Marine Veteran William \u201cBud\u201d McLeroy, who is participating in this week\u2019s #wintersportsclinic. William \u201cBud\u201d McLeroy was born in San Diego, California. He joined the Marine Corps in May 1980 and completed basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. He attended engineering training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,32,21,62,33,63,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veteranoftheday","category-adaptive-sports","category-army-veteran","category-marine-corps-veteran","category-national-disabled-veterans-winter-sports-clinic","category-va-adaptive-sports","category-veteran-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}