Marine Sgt. Bryan Weber saving the world

According to Military.com, 22-year-old Marine Sergeant Bryan Weber discovered that a fellow Marine veteran, 53-year-old Dave Ford needed a kidney after four years of frequent dialysis treatments.

Weber learned about Ford’s condition when his supervising staff noncommissioned officer, Gunnery Sgt. Jeremy Winkfield, told him that a fellow Marine whom he knew from Blount Island Command in Jacksonville was on dialysis, and needed a kidney.

“I said, ‘Gunny, I’m the same blood type as Ford,’ and so I reached out to the Mayo Clinic and after the tests, they confirmed I was a donor match,” said Weber, who works as a comptroller and currently serves as fiscal chief at Blount Island Command. “We’re all Marines, we look out for each other, it was just the right thing to do.”

Weber, 22 is no stranger to doing the right thing. He is often called upon for funeral honors in the greater Jacksonville area. He refers to this duty as an honor and privilege that gives comfort to the families of fallen Marines.

Category: Marine Corps