Nathan Currie & Brent McIntyre; Saving the world

Chief Tango sends us a link to the stories of Specialist Nathan Currie, who earned a Soldiers Medal and Corpsman Brent McIntyre who earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal in separate incidents. From DVIDS is the story of Currie’s heroism;

Currie was awarded the medal for his heroic actions at the scene of the accident last August.

“I heard a splash behind me, I noticed the car had entered the water, so I rushed to the scene,” explained Currie.

Before the accident occurred, Currie was simply enjoying a relaxing morning, fishing in Holbrook Pond.

According to Currie, it was his training in the EOD that provided him the quick reflexes and ability to react calmly under pressure.

Currie rushed to the scene and proceeded to dive in, pull Chancey out, and once getting her to shore, revive her by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

“I was just doing what I would want someone else to do if I was in that situation,” said Currie.

And from the Navy Times is McIntyre’s story;

On March 22, 2014, McIntyre was a search and rescue technician who was part of an eight-man team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island that rescued a total of seven people, difficult work as rescuers tried to find and free victims trapped in an avalanche of mud.

“Pulling them out was difficult. I had not been involved in that level of extrication,” McIntyre said in an exclusive interview with Navy Times. People were covered from the debris of their houses, mud, trees, and just about everything else imaginable.

Category: Real Soldiers