Recruiters receive Soldier’s Medals
…for actions during California mall shooting
Two Army recruiters received the Solder’s Medals for providing life-saving measures to Tanforan shooting victims in San Bruno back in July. Two teenagers were hurt in the shooting.
Staff Sgt. Isaiah Locklear took off his shirt to apply pressure to one man’s gunshot wound. He later helped carry one of the victims on a stretcher. Staff Sgt. Michael Marl was asked to help a second victim who was shot in the leg.
By: Kyle Rempfer
Staff Sgt. Isaiah Locklear and Staff Sgt. Michael Marl, both assigned to the Central California Recruiting Battalion, told Army Times in an interview describing the event that they began hearing gunfire while talking with a recruit in their offices at Tanforan Mall in San Bruno, California, at about 4 p.m.
“That’s when we heard two or three shots,” Marl said in July. “We kind of looked at each other and were like ‘is this gunfire?’ ”
After a few more gunshots were heard, the two soldiers instructed their recruit to take shelter in their back office. Then both men ran out to assist two victims who they found bleeding from gunshot wounds to the abdomen and thigh.
Locklear began providing aid to the first victim they found.
“The victim was on the floor, waving his hands, saying that he’s been shot,” Locklear said, adding that a gunshot wound to the stomach was visible. “I took my shirt off and I started applying pressure and checked him to make sure he didn’t have any other wounds.”
A second victim was identified by Marl, who began tending to the boy’s gunshot wound on the thigh.
“I just applied pressure, kept the kid calm and made sure the friend he had there with him didn’t go running around until the cops showed up,” said Marl, who has been in the Army for more than 12 years. “Thankfully, one of the first cops that came up actually had a tourniquet.”
“So we applied the tourniquet and just made sure it was tight and stayed with the kid until the actual paramedics showed up,” Marl added.
In total, four people were injured in the shooting, according to local media. The victims were ultimately transported to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
Bravo Zulu, gentlemen! Well done.
Category: Army, Bravo Zulu, Crime, Valor
Any narrative involving medals and money is truly a feel good story.
“The victims were ultimately transported to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.”
Mark Z donated $75 million to the hospital which was renamed in his honor.
“That’s gold, Jerry! Gold!” ~ Kenny Bania (Seinfeld show)
75M is a pretty healthy number.
BZ to the soldiers in question!!
Zuckerberg Hospital. Good lord.
👍👍
Way to go, way to be!
Gee whiz, I thought that guns weren’t allowed in California. What did I miss?
BZ to these two quick-thinking recruiters!
Military service is inherently dangerous.
That’s why discipline and training are at the
core of everyones job.
Recognition is a big part of that.
Kudos to the recipients.
We lost a newbie, I understand, in my son’s Guard unit this past week. Don’t know if an official report has been released, but prayers for the two injured survivors would be good.
Damn right! While practice makes perfect, practice has its price.
BZ to SSGs Isaiah Locklear and Michael Marl for their quick response in “marching to the sound of the guns.”
I used to receive automatic messages in my email each day to remind me to read and possibly post here. Since this site has moved, that is no longer the case. Am I missing something?
per Army Regulation 600-8-22, para 3-14, is “The performance must have involved personal hazard or danger and the voluntary risk of life under conditions not involving conflict with an armed enemy.
Not quite sure they were involved in personal hazard or danger but that’s just me.