{"id":669,"date":"2018-01-09T21:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deamaltzchallenge.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2018-01-09T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T04:22:27","slug":"navy-hospital-corpsman-3rd-class-jeffery-l-wiener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/09\/navy-hospital-corpsman-3rd-class-jeffery-l-wiener\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Jeffery L. Wiener"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Jeffery L. Wiener<\/h1>\n

Died May 7, 2005 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/h2>\n
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32, of Louisville, Ky.; assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force; died May 7 in a combat-related incident in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.<\/p>\n

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Former Louisville EMT killed in Iraq firefight<\/p>\n

By Brett Barrouquere<\/p>\n

Associated Press<\/p>\n

LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 When Jeffery Wiener first joined Jefferson County EMS after living and working in New York, he brought a hard-charging attitude to the job.<\/p>\n

So it came as no surprise to co-workers when Wiener joined the Naval Reserve in 2002, then took special training to become a Navy corpsman attached to a Marine unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was always real gung-ho, straight forward, no beating around the bush,\u201d said his partner of 18 months, Louisville Metro paramedic John Cooney. \u201cThat was his demeanor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wiener, a petty officer third class assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force, joined the service after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. He was shot Saturday by insurgents during a firefight after a suicide bombing near a hospital in western Iraq, military officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Insurgents used a civilian hospital to stage the attack, which started with a suicide bomb in a vehicle exploding about 30 feet from a patient ward, the Marines said in a statement. That explosion killed three Marines and started a fire at the hospital, the Marines said.<\/p>\n

A firefight that lasted about four hours ensued, and Wiener was killed during it, said 1st Lt. Pamela Marshall, a spokeswoman for the Marines.<\/p>\n

Wiener\u2019s family, most of whom live near Long Island, N.Y., declined Wednesday to speak publicly, said Navy Petty Officer Chris Zendan, a spokesman for the Navy in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Wiener, 32, worked as an emergency medical technician in Jefferson County from 2000 until he joined the military in 2002.<\/p>\n

Wiener\u2019s former EMS supervisor, Capt. Keith Vincent, described him as \u201ca hard charger\u201d who needed little supervision and got along well with his co-workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeff was one of the ones you didn\u2019t worry about,\u201d Vincent said. \u201cJeffery wanted to do a specific job and do it better than anyone who ever had done it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wiener loved paramedic work and helping people, which also helped push him into the military, Cooney and Vincent said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iraqi people lost a valuable asset,\u201d Vincent said.<\/p>\n

Navy corpsmen attached to Marine units undergo specialized training to handle emergency medical procedures near the front lines of fighting, said Vincent, a naval reservist for eight years.<\/p>\n

Wiener sought out the specialized training for a Navy corpsman so he could help more people and go where medical personnel were needed, Cooney said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe held up a flag to get deployed,\u201d Cooney said.<\/p>\n

News of Wiener\u2019s death reached paramedics in Louisville on Sunday and Monday, sending a chill through the office.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hit real hard,\u201d Cooney said. \u201cIt\u2019s been some long nights, it\u2019s been some rough nights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Louisville EMS is sending an honor guard to Wiener\u2019s funeral and to offer assistance to his parents, wife and two young children, Vincent said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is rough,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be there to help the family if we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Jeffery L. Wiener Died May 7, 2005 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom 32, of Louisville, Ky.; assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force; died May 7 in a combat-related incident in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Former Louisville EMT killed in Iraq firefight By Brett Barrouquere Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018honorees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}