La historia de Staff Sergeant Reckless es una de las m\u00e1s singulares en el mundo ecuestre y militar. Esta peque\u00f1a yegua, nacida en Corea del Sur en 1948 bajo el nombre de Ah-Chim-Hai (\u201cFlame of the Morning\u201d), pas\u00f3 de ser una potra destinada a las carreras a convertirse en un s\u00edmbolo inmortal del Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n
Su destino cambi\u00f3 en 1952, cuando el teniente Eric Pedersen, al mando del 75mm Recoilless Rifle Platoon, adquiri\u00f3 a la yegua en el hip\u00f3dromo de Se\u00fal por 250 d\u00f3lares. El dinero permiti\u00f3 a su antiguo due\u00f1o comprar una pr\u00f3tesis para su hermana, herida por una mina. Rebautizada como Reckless, pronto se gan\u00f3 el afecto de los Marines, que la convirtieron en parte de la unidad.<\/p>\n
Reckless no solo destac\u00f3 por su valent\u00eda, sino tambi\u00e9n por su car\u00e1cter. Era traviesa y glotona: com\u00eda huevos revueltos, chocolate, caf\u00e9 e incluso se atrev\u00eda con mantas o fichas de p\u00f3ker si se sent\u00eda ignorada. Esa actitud la convirti\u00f3 en \u201cuno m\u00e1s\u201d dentro del pelot\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
Su momento decisivo lleg\u00f3 en marzo de 1953, durante la Batalla de Outpost Vegas, uno de los combates m\u00e1s duros de la guerra de Corea. Bajo fuego constante, Reckless realiz\u00f3 51 viajes en solitario, transportando m\u00e1s de 5 toneladas de munici\u00f3n y evacuando heridos. Fue herida dos veces, pero nunca se detuvo. Por su valor, recibi\u00f3 el ascenso a Sargento.<\/p>\n
Los Marines la trataron como a una compa\u00f1era m\u00e1s. Compart\u00edan raciones con ella y la proteg\u00edan con chalecos antibalas. En 1957 fue promovida a Staff Sergeant, rango otorgado personalmente por el Comandante del Cuerpo de Marines, Gen. Randolph McCall Pate. Se retir\u00f3 oficialmente el 10 de noviembre de 1960, aniversario del Cuerpo, y falleci\u00f3 en 1968 en Camp Pendleton, con honores militares.<\/p>\n
Entre sus condecoraciones figuran dos Purple Hearts, la Presidential Unit Citation, la National Defense Service Medal y la Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, entre otras. D\u00e9cadas despu\u00e9s, recibi\u00f3 el prestigioso PDSA Dickin Medal y el Animals in War and Peace Medal of Bravery.<\/p>\n
Hoy, seis monumentos en Estados Unidos recuerdan a esta yegua que encarn\u00f3 los valores de coraje, compromiso y honor. Su historia incluso est\u00e1 en proceso de convertirse en pel\u00edcula, asegurando que nuevas generaciones conozcan su legado.<\/p>\n
Staff Sergeant Reckless no fue solo un caballo de guerra. Fue una aut\u00e9ntica Marine.<\/p>\n
Fuente: Stable Express<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La historia de Staff Sergeant Reckless es una de las m\u00e1s singulares en el mundo ecuestre y militar. Esta peque\u00f1a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":33242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[],"ubicacion-de-banners":[],"class_list":["post-33241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33241"},{"taxonomy":"ubicacion-de-banners","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaccoinfo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ubicacion-de-banners?post=33241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}