Spc. Nicole McKenzie Saving the World
Army Times reports Spc. Nicole McKenzie witnessed a chilling incident, stopped and rendered aid to a disturbed 12 year old child.
When a 12-year-old boy jumped off an overpass in New York, a National Guard soldier was there to help.
Spc. Nicole McKenzie was driving home from the Yonkers armory when she saw a flash of red going over the guardrail on the Saw Mill Parkway, according to an Army news release.
“I saw what looked like the outline of a boy going over the side,” McKenzie said in the release. “I knew something was wrong.”
The cable systems installer and maintainer with A Company, 101st Signal Battalion immediately pulled over to see how she could help.
McKenzie ran to the edge of the overpass, where a police officer was also assessing the scene — then McKenzie saw a boy lying on the rocks below.
The soldier and police officer ran down the overpass, climbing over a fence and dropping 10 feet to the ground in order to reach the boy, the release said.
McKenzie learned the boy was from the Andrus campus in the Bronx, an organization that provides services to children with special needs and behavioral issues.
According to the release, staff from Andrus were talking to the boy when he jumped from the overpass.
McKenzie had recently finished combat lifesaver training with the National Guard, and she began to triage the boy’s injuries.
She and the police officer used splints from McKenzie’s combat lifesaver bag to secure the boy’s neck, arm and leg, the release said.
The soldier also checked his vitals and stayed until medics arrived to take the boy to the hospital.
“I wear the uniform every day because I want to help soldiers — I want to help people,” McKenzie said in the release. “This is my family.”
Bravo Zulu, Spc. McKenzie- damned well done!
Category: Real Soldiers
BZ Girl, I hope you can hide those huge balls in your uniform!
Keeps ’em in her spare ruck for when she has a need to show up her snow flakey age group peers. Young’uns like this can give us hope for the future. Another example of the E-4 Mafia doing what they do. BZ Spc Mckenzie, well done!
I hope she at least got a commendation and an attaboy from her command….SOMETHING! Damned good work girl!
Well Done !!
“McKenzie had recently finished combat lifesaver training”
Aced the final exam.
Yup.
Nicely done. Kudos to her!
I would hope that her command at least considers putting her in for the Soldier’s Medal. I remember a similar incident where a couple of our “slightly more than Combat Life Saver trained” Soldiers were headed to Hilton Head and witnessed a Hit-and-run. They immediately stopped and rendered aide. The Paramedics stated when they arrived that they did more than they could have done, and definitely saved the lives of the two individuals. Their supervisor put them in for the Soldier’s Medal, but I heard it was not awarded for some reason (maybe someone forgot to dot the T or cross the I).
The Soldier’s medal is only awarded if there was serious risk to the Soldiers involved. I had a troopie get an ARCOM for saving a life, no Soldier’s Medal because there was no imminent danger.
The chicken shyt supervisor didn’t want them to have an award the supervisor doesn’t have?
Outfuckingstanding, Cable Dawg! You did the Signal Corps proud!
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Talk about the right place at the right time … I would wager LARGE that somebody was praying for that kid, and SPC McKenzie was the Good Lord’s answer.
Very well done, young lady!