{"id":679,"date":"2018-01-12T04:54:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T11:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deamaltzchallenge.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2018-01-12T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T12:00:21","slug":"staff-sergeant-vincent-j-bell-usmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/12\/staff-sergeant-vincent-j-bell-usmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Staff Sgt. Vincent J. Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Born \u2013 July 8, 1983<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Died \u2013 November 30, 2011,<\/span>\u00a0in Helmand Province, Afghanistan<\/span>\u00a0(28<\/span>\u00a0years old)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SSgt Bell<\/span>\u00a0graduated from<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Crockett Technical High School in Detroit in 2001<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0H<\/span>e enlisted in<\/span>\u00a0the United Stat<\/span>es Marine Corps<\/span>\u00a0on July 9, 2001,<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>subsequently\u00a0<\/span>began Recruit Training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After completing boot camp and subsequent training,\u00a0<\/span>SSgt Bell served four tours of duty in Iraq and was serving his first tour of duty in Afghanistan as\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>n artilleryman assigned to 2<\/span>nd<\/span>\u00a0Battalion, 11<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0Marines,\u00a0<\/span>1<\/span>st<\/span>\u00a0Marine Divisi<\/span>on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>SSgt Bell<\/span>\u00a0was killed by a<\/span>n improvised explosive device (IED) w<\/span>hile conducting a foot patrol.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His award<\/span>s include the Purple Heart,\u00a0<\/span>Navy\u00a0<\/span>and Marine Corps Achievement M<\/span>edal,\u00a0<\/span>Combat Action Ribbon, Presidential Unit Citation, Navy Unit Commendation<\/span>\u00a0Medal<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Good Conduct\u00a0<\/span>Medal<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>National Defense Service Medal,\u00a0<\/span>Afghanistan Campaign Medal,\u00a0<\/span>Iraq Campaign Medal<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Global War on<\/span>\u00a0Terrorism Expeditionary Medal<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and Sea Service Deployment Ribb<\/span>on<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SSgt Bell<\/span>\u00a0was<\/span>\u00a0buried at\u00a0<\/span>Arlington National Cemetery<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>SSgt Bell<\/span>\u00a0is<\/span>\u00a0survived by his\u00a0<\/span>mother, Pamela; father, James; and two sisters, London and Andrea<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Born \u2013 July 8, 1983\u00a0 Died \u2013 November 30, 2011,\u00a0in Helmand Province, Afghanistan\u00a0(28\u00a0years old)\u00a0 SSgt Bell\u00a0graduated from\u00a0Crockett Technical High School in Detroit in 2001.\u00a0\u00a0He enlisted in\u00a0the United States Marine Corps\u00a0on July 9, 2001,\u00a0and\u00a0subsequently\u00a0began Recruit Training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC.\u00a0 After completing boot camp and subsequent training,\u00a0SSgt Bell served four tours […]<\/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-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018honorees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}