Mom To Be Saves a Life
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Sgt. Emily Anderson of 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team returns with fellow soldiers to Roanoke, Virginia, in March 2017 after a deployment to conduct security operations in Qatar. (Cotton Puryear/National Guard)
If any veteran still believes that their military skills have no use in the civilian world, let this be proof to the contrary.
Last Friday night, Sgt. Emily Anderson was celebrating her grandfather’s 80th birthday with her family at the Crown Sterling restaurant in Lynchburg, Virginia.
During their dinner, Anderson — a 28-year-old Army medic with the Virginia National Guard based in Charlottesville, Virginia — told Military Times she realized that a man at a table behind her was having trouble breathing. The man quickly passed out, and Anderson knew her military training was needed.
She said that she and a few others helped the man to the floor and felt for his pulse, which they couldn’t find. Anderson began CPR, and it took two rounds for the man to regain consciousness. She said she kept him talking to make sure he stayed awake until the ambulance arrived. – Article
SGT Anderson is 8 months along. Let’s all applaud her for her quick thinking, among other things, and look for the positive in life. She is a fine example of her generation, head and shoulders above the squawkers.
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Bravo Zulu, Sgt. Anderson!
Well done Sergeant.
Bravo Zulu Army (gobeatnavy) SGT Emily Anderson. I’m sure that you will be as good a Mother as you are a Army Medic.
It is younglings such as this that can give us hope for the future.
Good job, Sgt. Anderson – and 8 months preggers at that. Your child shall be born to a hero – may they become one when they are an adult.
(Go Army, beat Navy.)