Cierra Rogers
Posted on 07/01/2016 7:24:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Osan honors airman who died after helping rescue family from fire
By Kat Bouza
Stars and Stripes
Published: June 28, 2016
The 731st Air Mobility Squadron at Osan Air Base has honored an airman who died from injuries sustained while helping save a family from a burning building.
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The dramatic events were captured on cell phone footage, showing a group of airmen and local residents using a blanket to catch a woman and her three children as they leapt from a window in the apartment building. Rogers initiated the rescue when she entered the smoke-filled apartment to kick out the window and usher the family toward safety.
“This beauty was in the hospital when everyone was being interviewed,” friend Kris Murray wrote in a tribute post on Facebook. “[Cierra] remained calm and told the mom how to breathe in the smoke, then convinced the mom to throw her three babies out the window to safety where firefighters and a few airman and soldiers waited to catch them. Cierra got very hurt in the process while sliding down some wires and kicking a window in.”
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John 15:13 - Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Wow!
Super dramatic!
RIP... :(
Wow, I follow Korean news but didn’t hear about this. I hope she is also honored by the Korean government for what she did. You tend to just get the negative about the U.S. military presence nowadays.
God Bless her.
I was stationed at Osan Air Base in 1967-68, the year the Pueblo was taken by the North Koreans.
I remember going once a week in a van from Osan to Pusan to teach young Korean children to speak English. The GI’s loved the South Koreans and tried to help them advance when they could. This Airman shows that the loyalty has carried on.
Wow. Such joy in her eyes. RIP.
May the LORD lift her up on eagle’s wings and grant her peace.
From USAF web site:
“Staff Sgt. Rogers’ honorable actions to help those in danger were a true example of what it means to serve,” said Lt. Gen. Lee Wang-Keon, the commander of South Korean air force operations command, who was present to offer condolences on behalf of South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye and Minister of Defense Han Min-koo. “We highly respect her courageous actions and will forever remember her noble sacrifice.”
Bflr
Words are inadequate for this kind of bravery and sacrifice.
I was down the road at Suwon Air Base in 69-70 but regularly took the bus to Osan to see a movie and have some ice cream at the BX complex on my days off. I always marveled at the ramshackle buildings outside the main gate...bars, meat markets,tailors...and did I mention all of the bars? When I read this story I visualized the old buildings that these hard working, industrious people existed in and the numerous exposed electrical lines that weaved their way to and from them. SSgt. Rogers was a credit to her uniform and makes me proud to know that she and her Airmen brethren are carrying on the traditions and values we fought for so long ago.
Sgt Rodgers joins those whose "uncommon valor" is a "common virtue". She represents the best of the fraternity/sorority of arms. This veteran salutes her courage.
Bravo Zulu Sgt Rodgers!
the infowarrior
Good. I like President Park. She is very hard-working and diligent.
She is one-person barrier against onslaught of pro-North/leftist encroachment and self-serving RINO-like politicians. MSM in U.S. tends to highlight her family background, her being the daughter of late military strongman Park Chung-hee, and, by association, insinuates that she is also a kind of dictator. Her resolute stance against militant lefts is not welcome by the likes of New York Times. Some here at FR also eat up such drivel, too.
Agreed. I also like she doesn’t take any c***. When they had that labor union riot last year in Seoul where they were smashing the police buses and running big steel poles through them (someone could have gotten killed), and then their leader took refuge in the Buddhist temple, she had no problem hauling his butt out of the monastery when he didn’t come out voluntarily.
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