2LT Robert McCoy saving the world
Q13 Fox reports that Second Lieutenant Robert McCoy just barely avoided being struck by that train which fell off an overpass and hit some vehicles on the roadway below in DuPont, Washington yesterday;
“The train is going south and I’m just kind of driving, just driving, and I hear a loud noise and I look up and I see the train and it hits the concrete walls on the side and when it hits the walls — the walls kind of exploded — and the train just falls off. I see the train fall and it kind of falls on itself … and it hits three vehicles that were in front of me — a semi, a F-150 and a Kia Soul.”
An officer in the Army’s medical field at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, McCoy grabbed some equipment from his own vehicle and began dragging folks to safety, away from the dangling train car. He and another volunteer helped 30-40 passengers to safety;
“I couldn’t afford to be scared, I couldn’t afford to be shocked. I had to do what I am called to do and focus and channel that and help these peple around me get to safety as best as possible.”
Thanks to Devtun for the link.
Category: Real Soldiers
BZ LT McCoy!
Awesome job LT! You do much to bring credit to the most maligned rank in the military!
Some interesting useless trivia – it was a hundred yrs ago when army 2LTs got the butter bar insignia. Before December 1917 their shoulder straps & collars were left blank.
Ha! I was just thinking the same thing!
LT’s got it together!
Well done, 2LT McCoy. Kudos.
Hopefully your command will properly recognize your exemplary actions.
Living proof that his generation are not really a bunch of snowflakes. That whole promo thing about the snowflakes is a media-hyped microcosm of academic shenanigans and ne’er do well ninnies.
Lt. McCoy is an excellent representative of his generation as are the vast majority of troops in service to America.
I’d guess that there are 40 or more folks in Washington who will be thanking Lt. McCoy for his service for a long time to come.
Millennial’s are snowflakes. If he’s a 2LT he’s more likely a Gen Zer. Perhaps there is hope in the world.
Great job LT.
You may be right. He’s probably 24/25 which would have him born around 1992 or ’93. By definition, millennial snowflakes would start at 2000 and most have not reached adulthood… and may never achieve adulthood!
The chart on my cube wall says Millenials run from 1980-94, Z’s from 95 on. Though there is no uniform end date, with some demographers pushing the end of millenials to 2000 (God help us).
I figured him to be 22/23 so 94/95 birth.
I think you’re right. After looking up some definitions of what the various generations are referred as it was new knowledge for me. My own son is a millenial. You’d never guess it if you met him! There ain’t no snowflake in that young man. Or, for that matter, any of his friends or coworkers.
Thanks for clearing up the generation naming convention.
Right guy, right place, right time.
Bump him up a grade.
I don’t know for sure, but is 2LT McCoy the same individual about whom I heard yesterday evening – an Eagle Scout who, with his girlfriend, tended to the victims before EMS could arrive and prayed with/for them as well? Or are they different individuals?
Perhaps this is what you heard?
Could be. It was posted on FB last night by a fellow Scouter but I didn’t have time to follow the link – and FB is verboten while at work.
Thanks.
Every time one of these stories comes up, I know that there is hope in the world.
Well done, Lieutenant.
Agreed.
BZ, LT. Well done!
Nice job LT. YOU are the real McCoy.
Ironically, the original ‘Real McCoy’ referred to the NcCoy oiling device to keep parts lubricated – on locomotives.
That name …. where have I heard it before? Ahhhhhh yesssssss:
Dammit Jim, I’m just a country doctor!
Maybe they call him LT Bones?
Good job, Bones!
A 2LT who can roll up his sleeves and dive into work? BZ, sir.
Here’s hoping he doesn’t ETS after his four or six years. Need more officers like him.
Then they hauled at least 20 injured a few miles up the road to Madigan Army Hospital at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. WAR STORY ALERT: I can claim being stationed at McChord as a SSgt with duty at PIA and at Fort Lewis as a CW2 then retirement.
One little article like this can make a days worth of crap seem insignificant – job well done, LT.
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