{"id":20281,"date":"2019-12-08T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=20281"},"modified":"2019-12-08T13:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T19:11:02","slug":"20281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=20281","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lawofficer.com\/news\/u-s-naval-academy-graduate-died-relaying-crucial-information-to-first-responders\/\">U.S. Naval Academy graduate died relaying crucial information to first responders.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>PENSACOLA, Fla.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A young graduate of the\u00a0U.S. Naval Academy, whose dream was to become a pilot, is being hailed a hero after he reportedly related crucial information about the identity of the\u00a0Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola\u00a0shooter to first responders, despite having been shot several times, a family member revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, was confirmed as one of the three victims who\u00a0were killed Friday morning when\u00a0Saudi\u00a0national\u00a0Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lawofficer.com\/news\/suspect-opens-fire-at-naval-air-station-pensacola-4-dead-including-shooter-several-more-injured-including-deputies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened fire on a flight training program<\/a>\u00a0for foreign military personnel, Adam Watson revealed in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview to air Sunday with Fox News\u2019 Chris Wallace, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said\u00a0all three victims were Americans.\u00a0Two were members of the U.S. Navy, a senior Pentagon official told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/naval-academy-grad-shot-5-times-hero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watson\u2019s father Benjamin told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/12\/07\/joshua-kaleb-watson-pensacola-navy-base-shooting-victim\/4364650002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a>\u00a0that his son was the officer on deck at the time of the shooting and sustained at least five gunshot wounds before being able to make it out to relay important information about the shooter before succumbing to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeavily wounded, he made his way out to flag down first responders and gave an accurate description of the shooter,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cHe died serving his country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Naval Academy graduate died relaying crucial information to first responders. PENSACOLA, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 A young graduate of the\u00a0U.S. Naval Academy, whose dream was to become a pilot, is being hailed a hero after he reportedly related crucial information about the identity of the\u00a0Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola\u00a0shooter to first responders, despite having been shot several &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=20281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroism","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20292,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20281\/revisions\/20292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}