{"id":70157,"date":"2021-07-27T04:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T09:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70157"},"modified":"2021-07-27T04:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T09:08:56","slug":"70157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70157","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/asia_pacific\/2021-07-26\/us-army-skeet-shooter-gold-medal-tokyo-olympics-2310911.html?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=EBB%2007.26.21&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">Army shooter is first US service member to win gold medal at Tokyo Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-exp1.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/C5622AQEL7Lv4pJaG2Q\/feedshare-shrink_800\/0\/1627297989592?e=1630540800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=ynCEJj22-9_14txFsYY8ym6w5t6RYI0VsmvanRF0AwY\" alt=\"a picture of a person posing for the camera\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">AMP ASAKA, Japan \u2013 An Army lieutenant became the first U.S. service member to clinch a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics with a first-place finish in women\u2019s shotgun skeet on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">First Lt. Amber English, a logistics officer and member of the Army Marksmanship Unit, bested Diana Bacosi of Italy, the 2016 women&#8217;s skeet gold medalist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">\u201cAmber English wins gold with an Olympic Record of 56 in the women&#8217;s skeet final after a nail-biting ending,\u201d said a tweet on the games\u2019 official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>English, 31, a native of Colorado Springs, Colo., hit 56 of 60 targets at the event, just three off the world record held by Wei Meng of China, who took bronze Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army shooter is first US service member to win gold medal at Tokyo Olympics AMP ASAKA, Japan \u2013 An Army lieutenant became the first U.S. service member to clinch a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics with a first-place finish in women\u2019s shotgun skeet on Monday. First Lt. Amber English, a logistics officer and member &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70157\" 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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70157","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=70157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70158,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70157\/revisions\/70158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}