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Calculated Shard: 196 (from laksa036)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa196.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical, ml_categories_json AS ml_categories_json, ml_types_json AS ml_types_json, ml_intent_types_json AS ml_intent_types_json, meta_language AS meta_language, attrs_author AS attrs_author, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_publish_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_original_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_original_publish_time, ifNull(attrs_is_republished, 0) AS attrs_is_republished, ifNull(attrs_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_nr_words, ifNull(attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, ifNull(body_ext_links_number, 0) AS body_ext_links_number, ifNull(body_int_links_number, 0) AS body_int_links_number, ifNull(meta_nofollow, 0) AS meta_nofollow, ifNull(meta_noarchive, 0) AS meta_noarchive, ifNull(props_was_rendered, 0) AS props_was_rendered, ifNull(src_redirect, \'\') AS src_redirect, ifNull(download_time_msec, 0) AS download_time_msec, ifNull(download_ttfb_msec, 0) AS download_ttfb_msec, ifNull(download_size, 0) AS download_size FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/retired-guard-soldier-receives-medal-honor\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/retired-guard-soldier-receives-medal-honor\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.ngaus.org\/newsroom\/retired-guard-soldier-receives-medal-honor","crawl_time":1777087075,"first_indexed_time":1772573880,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,ngaus!www,\/newsroom\/retired-guard-soldier-receives-medal-honor s443","src_root_hash":"11267014571728047396","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Retired Guard Soldier Receives Medal of Honor | National Guard Association of the United States","meta_descriptions":["A retired Michigan Army National command sergeant major received the nation’s highest award for valor in combat from President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"A retired Michigan Army National command sergeant major received the nation’s highest award for valor in combat from President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House.\nRetired Command Sgt. Maj. Terry Richardson was recognized with the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 85 Soldiers nearly 60 years ago while wounded during a firefight in then-South Vietnam.\nAt the time, he was a draftee serving as squad leader in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division. He was honorably discharged from active duty less than a year later. \nRichardson joined the Michigan Army Guard in 1978, serving 30 years before retiring in 2008 as the post command sergeant major of the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Center in Northern Michigan.  \nBut Monday’s event focused on his gallantry during a reconnaissance mission Sept. 14, 1968, between Loc Ninh and the Cambodian border.\nRichardson’s unit “was engaged by intense automatic weapons and small-arms fire from a well-entrenched North Vietnamese Army battalion,” according to his Army biography. \nHis company attempted to advance along with several other units from the 1st Infantry Division.\n“Richardson maneuvered through a hail of hostile rounds and deployed his men into defensive positions while directing their suppressive fire. During the attack, he dragged three wounded soldiers back to safety,” the Army said.\nMoving through gunfire, he rescued each of the wounded Soldiers, marking the nearest enemy machine gun bunkers with smoke grenades so they could be targeted by air strikes.\nRealizing his surrounded unit would be overrun without air strikes, Richardson sneaked up Hill 222 and, while hiding in an irrigation ditch, directed U.S. fighter bombers as they dropped their ordnance on enemy positions, the Army said.\nAn hour into his efforts, Richardson was shot in the leg by a sniper. Ignoring the pain, he stayed on the radio for seven more hours, calling in more than 30 air strikes close to his position and saving 85 American lives, according to accounts.\n“His efforts proved instrumental in saving his company and breaking the North Vietnamese grip on Hill 222,” the Army said.\nRichardson was found alive by his Soldiers after the enemy had fled. He declined medical evacuation to stay with his troops. \nHe was originally awarded with a Bronze Star for his actions, which chafed those he saved. They thought his actions deserved higher recognition, but Richardson waved off any effort at an upgrade, even though his citation incorrectly said he saved two lives and not 85.\n“I was just doing my job,” he reportedly said.\nRichardson relented upon his retirement from military service. \nThe effort led by those who were with him on Hill 222 took several years but never wavered. It culminated when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth approved the new award late last year. \nHe said he learned of the decision from those involved in the push. \nStill, Richardson said he “fell out of his chair” Feb. 2 when he received a call from the president, according to published reports.\n“He said, ‘I read your story,’” Richardson recalled. “And he said, ‘I’ll tell you right now … I probably would never do what you did. When I read it, I knew I wanted to talk to you.’” \nHe said the call with Trump lasted maybe 10 minutes, and it was “quite an honor.” \nAlso receiving the Medal of Honor on Monday were Army\nStaff Sgt. Michael Otis\nfor heroism in Afghanistan in 2013 and\nMaster Sgt. Roderick Edmonds\nfor refusing to identify Jewish-American prisoners at Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain, Germany, in 1945.\nBoth received the honor posthumously. \nAt least 141 other recipients of the Medal of Honor have Guard service. 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Maj. Terry Richardson was recognized with the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 85 Soldiers nearly 60 years ago while wounded during a firefight in then-South Vietnam.\n\nAt the time, he was a draftee serving as squad leader in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division. He was honorably discharged from active duty less than a year later.\n\nRichardson joined the Michigan Army Guard in 1978, serving 30 years before retiring in 2008 as the post command sergeant major of the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Center in Northern Michigan.\n\nBut Monday’s event focused on his gallantry during a reconnaissance mission Sept. 14, 1968, between Loc Ninh and the Cambodian border.\n\nRichardson’s unit “was engaged by intense automatic weapons and small-arms fire from a well-entrenched North Vietnamese Army battalion,” according to his Army biography.\n\nHis company attempted to advance along with several other units from the 1st Infantry Division.\n\n“Richardson maneuvered through a hail of hostile rounds and deployed his men into defensive positions while directing their suppressive fire. During the attack, he dragged three wounded soldiers back to safety,” the Army said.\n\nMoving through gunfire, he rescued each of the wounded Soldiers, marking the nearest enemy machine gun bunkers with smoke grenades so they could be targeted by air strikes.\n\nRealizing his surrounded unit would be overrun without air strikes, Richardson sneaked up Hill 222 and, while hiding in an irrigation ditch, directed U.S. fighter bombers as they dropped their ordnance on enemy positions, the Army said.\n\nAn hour into his efforts, Richardson was shot in the leg by a sniper. Ignoring the pain, he stayed on the radio for seven more hours, calling in more than 30 air strikes close to his position and saving 85 American lives, according to accounts.\n\n“His efforts proved instrumental in saving his company and breaking the North Vietnamese grip on Hill 222,” the Army said.\n\nRichardson was found alive by his Soldiers after the enemy had fled. He declined medical evacuation to stay with his troops.\n\nHe was originally awarded with a Bronze Star for his actions, which chafed those he saved. They thought his actions deserved higher recognition, but Richardson waved off any effort at an upgrade, even though his citation incorrectly said he saved two lives and not 85.\n\n“I was just doing my job,” he reportedly said.\n\nRichardson relented upon his retirement from military service.\n\nThe effort led by those who were with him on Hill 222 took several years but never wavered. It culminated when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth approved the new award late last year.\n\nHe said he learned of the decision from those involved in the push.\n\nStill, Richardson said he “fell out of his chair” Feb. 2 when he received a call from the president, according to published reports.\n\n“He said, ‘I read your story,’” Richardson recalled. “And he said, ‘I’ll tell you right now … I probably would never do what you did. When I read it, I knew I wanted to talk to you.’”\n\nHe said the call with Trump lasted maybe 10 minutes, and it was “quite an honor.”\n\nAlso receiving the Medal of Honor on Monday were Army [Staff Sgt. Michael Otis](https:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/ollis\/) for heroism in Afghanistan in 2013 and [Master Sgt. Roderick Edmonds](https:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/edmonds\/index.html) for refusing to identify Jewish-American prisoners at Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain, Germany, in 1945.\n\nBoth received the honor posthumously.\n\nAt least 141 other recipients of the Medal of Honor have Guard service. Their names are in the Medal of Honor Alcove in the National Guard Memorial, the NGAUS headquarters in Washington, D.C., and on the National Guard Educational Foundation [website](https:\/\/www.ngef.org\/memorials\/medal-of-honor-gallery\/national-guard-medal-of-honor-recipients-by-state\/).\n\n*—By John Goheen*\n\n[Army National Guard](https:\/\/www.ngaus.org\/topics\/army-national-guard)\n\n[Awards](https:\/\/www.ngaus.org\/topics\/awards)\n\n![](https:\/\/www.ngaus.org\/themes\/custom\/ngaus\/images\/arrow-white.svg)\n\n## Related Content\n[![FL Guard](https:\/\/www.ngaus.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/paragraph_cta\/public\/2026-04\/FLminuteman1000.jpg?h=9624e4e4&itok=JxI_3IWO)](https:\/\/www.ngaus.org\/newsroom\/florida-battalion-completes-first-minuteman-rotation)\n\n## [Florida Battalion Completes First Minuteman Rotation](https:\/\/www.ngaus.org\/newsroom\/florida-battalion-completes-first-minuteman-rotation)\n[Read More 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He was honorably discharged from active duty less than a year later.\n\nRichardson joined the Michigan Army Guard in 1978, serving 30 years before retiring in 2008 as the post command sergeant major of the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Center in Northern Michigan.\n\nBut Monday’s event focused on his gallantry during a reconnaissance mission Sept. 14, 1968, between Loc Ninh and the Cambodian border.\n\nRichardson’s unit “was engaged by intense automatic weapons and small-arms fire from a well-entrenched North Vietnamese Army battalion,” according to his Army biography.\n\nHis company attempted to advance along with several other units from the 1st Infantry Division.\n\n“Richardson maneuvered through a hail of hostile rounds and deployed his men into defensive positions while directing their suppressive fire. During the attack, he dragged three wounded soldiers back to safety,” the Army said.\n\nMoving through gunfire, he rescued each of the wounded Soldiers, marking the nearest enemy machine gun bunkers with smoke grenades so they could be targeted by air strikes.\n\nRealizing his surrounded unit would be overrun without air strikes, Richardson sneaked up Hill 222 and, while hiding in an irrigation ditch, directed U.S. fighter bombers as they dropped their ordnance on enemy positions, the Army said.\n\nAn hour into his efforts, Richardson was shot in the leg by a sniper. Ignoring the pain, he stayed on the radio for seven more hours, calling in more than 30 air strikes close to his position and saving 85 American lives, according to accounts.\n\n“His efforts proved instrumental in saving his company and breaking the North Vietnamese grip on Hill 222,” the Army said.\n\nRichardson was found alive by his Soldiers after the enemy had fled. 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A retired Michigan Army National command sergeant major received the nation’s highest award for valor in combat from President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House. Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Terry Richardson was recognized with the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 85 Soldiers nearly 60 years ago while wounded during a firefight in then-South Vietnam. At the time, he was a draftee serving as squad leader in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division. He was honorably discharged from active duty less than a year later. Richardson joined the Michigan Army Guard in 1978, serving 30 years before retiring in 2008 as the post command sergeant major of the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Center in Northern Michigan. But Monday’s event focused on his gallantry during a reconnaissance mission Sept. 14, 1968, between Loc Ninh and the Cambodian border. Richardson’s unit “was engaged by intense automatic weapons and small-arms fire from a well-entrenched North Vietnamese Army battalion,” according to his Army biography. His company attempted to advance along with several other units from the 1st Infantry Division. “Richardson maneuvered through a hail of hostile rounds and deployed his men into defensive positions while directing their suppressive fire. During the attack, he dragged three wounded soldiers back to safety,” the Army said. Moving through gunfire, he rescued each of the wounded Soldiers, marking the nearest enemy machine gun bunkers with smoke grenades so they could be targeted by air strikes. Realizing his surrounded unit would be overrun without air strikes, Richardson sneaked up Hill 222 and, while hiding in an irrigation ditch, directed U.S. fighter bombers as they dropped their ordnance on enemy positions, the Army said. An hour into his efforts, Richardson was shot in the leg by a sniper. Ignoring the pain, he stayed on the radio for seven more hours, calling in more than 30 air strikes close to his position and saving 85 American lives, according to accounts. “His efforts proved instrumental in saving his company and breaking the North Vietnamese grip on Hill 222,” the Army said. Richardson was found alive by his Soldiers after the enemy had fled. He declined medical evacuation to stay with his troops. He was originally awarded with a Bronze Star for his actions, which chafed those he saved. They thought his actions deserved higher recognition, but Richardson waved off any effort at an upgrade, even though his citation incorrectly said he saved two lives and not 85. “I was just doing my job,” he reportedly said. Richardson relented upon his retirement from military service. The effort led by those who were with him on Hill 222 took several years but never wavered. It culminated when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth approved the new award late last year. He said he learned of the decision from those involved in the push. Still, Richardson said he “fell out of his chair” Feb. 2 when he received a call from the president, according to published reports. “He said, ‘I read your story,’” Richardson recalled. “And he said, ‘I’ll tell you right now … I probably would never do what you did. When I read it, I knew I wanted to talk to you.’” He said the call with Trump lasted maybe 10 minutes, and it was “quite an honor.” Also receiving the Medal of Honor on Monday were Army Staff Sgt. Michael Otis for heroism in Afghanistan in 2013 and Master Sgt. Roderick Edmonds for refusing to identify Jewish-American prisoners at Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain, Germany, in 1945. Both received the honor posthumously. At least 141 other recipients of the Medal of Honor have Guard service. Their names are in the Medal of Honor Alcove in the National Guard Memorial, the NGAUS headquarters in Washington, D.C., and on the National Guard Educational Foundation website . —By John Goheen

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Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Terry Richardson was recognized with the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 85 Soldiers nearly 60 years ago while wounded during a firefight in then-South Vietnam. At the time, he was a draftee serving as squad leader in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division. He was honorably discharged from active duty less than a year later. Richardson joined the Michigan Army Guard in 1978, serving 30 years before retiring in 2008 as the post command sergeant major of the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Center in Northern Michigan. But Monday’s event focused on his gallantry during a reconnaissance mission Sept. 14, 1968, between Loc Ninh and the Cambodian border. Richardson’s unit “was engaged by intense automatic weapons and small-arms fire from a well-entrenched North Vietnamese Army battalion,” according to his Army biography. His company attempted to advance along with several other units from the 1st Infantry Division. “Richardson maneuvered through a hail of hostile rounds and deployed his men into defensive positions while directing their suppressive fire. During the attack, he dragged three wounded soldiers back to safety,” the Army said. Moving through gunfire, he rescued each of the wounded Soldiers, marking the nearest enemy machine gun bunkers with smoke grenades so they could be targeted by air strikes. Realizing his surrounded unit would be overrun without air strikes, Richardson sneaked up Hill 222 and, while hiding in an irrigation ditch, directed U.S. fighter bombers as they dropped their ordnance on enemy positions, the Army said. An hour into his efforts, Richardson was shot in the leg by a sniper. Ignoring the pain, he stayed on the radio for seven more hours, calling in more than 30 air strikes close to his position and saving 85 American lives, according to accounts. “His efforts proved instrumental in saving his company and breaking the North Vietnamese grip on Hill 222,” the Army said. Richardson was found alive by his Soldiers after the enemy had fled. He declined medical evacuation to stay with his troops. He was originally awarded with a Bronze Star for his actions, which chafed those he saved. They thought his actions deserved higher recognition, but Richardson waved off any effort at an upgrade, even though his citation incorrectly said he saved two lives and not 85. “I was just doing my job,” he reportedly said. Richardson relented upon his retirement from military service. The effort led by those who were with him on Hill 222 took several years but never wavered. It culminated when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth approved the new award late last year. He said he learned of the decision from those involved in the push. Still, Richardson said he “fell out of his chair” Feb. 2 when he received a call from the president, according to published reports. “He said, ‘I read your story,’” Richardson recalled. “And he said, ‘I’ll tell you right now … I probably would never do what you did. When I read it, I knew I wanted to talk to you.’” He said the call with Trump lasted maybe 10 minutes, and it was “quite an honor.” Also receiving the Medal of Honor on Monday were Army [Staff Sgt. Michael Otis](https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/ollis/) for heroism in Afghanistan in 2013 and [Master Sgt. Roderick Edmonds](https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/edmonds/index.html) for refusing to identify Jewish-American prisoners at Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain, Germany, in 1945. Both received the honor posthumously. At least 141 other recipients of the Medal of Honor have Guard service. 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A retired Michigan Army National command sergeant major received the nation’s highest award for valor in combat from President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House. Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Terry Richardson was recognized with the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 85 Soldiers nearly 60 years ago while wounded during a firefight in then-South Vietnam. At the time, he was a draftee serving as squad leader in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division. He was honorably discharged from active duty less than a year later. Richardson joined the Michigan Army Guard in 1978, serving 30 years before retiring in 2008 as the post command sergeant major of the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Center in Northern Michigan. But Monday’s event focused on his gallantry during a reconnaissance mission Sept. 14, 1968, between Loc Ninh and the Cambodian border. Richardson’s unit “was engaged by intense automatic weapons and small-arms fire from a well-entrenched North Vietnamese Army battalion,” according to his Army biography. His company attempted to advance along with several other units from the 1st Infantry Division. “Richardson maneuvered through a hail of hostile rounds and deployed his men into defensive positions while directing their suppressive fire. During the attack, he dragged three wounded soldiers back to safety,” the Army said. Moving through gunfire, he rescued each of the wounded Soldiers, marking the nearest enemy machine gun bunkers with smoke grenades so they could be targeted by air strikes. Realizing his surrounded unit would be overrun without air strikes, Richardson sneaked up Hill 222 and, while hiding in an irrigation ditch, directed U.S. fighter bombers as they dropped their ordnance on enemy positions, the Army said. An hour into his efforts, Richardson was shot in the leg by a sniper. Ignoring the pain, he stayed on the radio for seven more hours, calling in more than 30 air strikes close to his position and saving 85 American lives, according to accounts. “His efforts proved instrumental in saving his company and breaking the North Vietnamese grip on Hill 222,” the Army said. Richardson was found alive by his Soldiers after the enemy had fled. He declined medical evacuation to stay with his troops. He was originally awarded with a Bronze Star for his actions, which chafed those he saved. They thought his actions deserved higher recognition, but Richardson waved off any effort at an upgrade, even though his citation incorrectly said he saved two lives and not 85. “I was just doing my job,” he reportedly said. Richardson relented upon his retirement from military service. The effort led by those who were with him on Hill 222 took several years but never wavered. It culminated when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth approved the new award late last year. He said he learned of the decision from those involved in the push. Still, Richardson said he “fell out of his chair” Feb. 2 when he received a call from the president, according to published reports. “He said, ‘I read your story,’” Richardson recalled. “And he said, ‘I’ll tell you right now … I probably would never do what you did. When I read it, I knew I wanted to talk to you.’” He said the call with Trump lasted maybe 10 minutes, and it was “quite an honor.” Also receiving the Medal of Honor on Monday were Army [Staff Sgt. Michael Otis](https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/ollis/) for heroism in Afghanistan in 2013 and [Master Sgt. Roderick Edmonds](https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/edmonds/index.html) for refusing to identify Jewish-American prisoners at Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain, Germany, in 1945. Both received the honor posthumously. At least 141 other recipients of the Medal of Honor have Guard service. Their names are in the Medal of Honor Alcove in the National Guard Memorial, the NGAUS headquarters in Washington, D.C., and on the National Guard Educational Foundation [website](https://www.ngef.org/memorials/medal-of-honor-gallery/national-guard-medal-of-honor-recipients-by-state/). *—By John Goheen*

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