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| Navy Cross will be awarded to 29 Palms Marine |
| 2009-03-26 |
| A Marine stationed in Twentynine Palms will be awarded the Navy Cross during a ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center on Friday. Lance Corporal Brady A. Gustafson, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, a turret gunner from Eagan, MN, "Enabled his fellow Marines to fight their way out of a complex ambush July 21 while deployed to the Farah province, Afghanistan. Despite sustaining a severe traumatic injury to his right leg, Gustafson identified the enemy positions and engaged them with machine-gun fire and thus afforded the Marines involved time to escape the 'kill zone.'" The Navy Cross, aside from the Medal of Honor, is the highest award a Marine is eligible to receive. I plan on being there. 2/7 took significant casualties in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #6 GolfBravoUSMC: I suppose his CoC was willing to forgive him for using those bad words on being ordered to redeploy. Marines tend to get testy when being ordered out of a pitched battle before they are good and ready. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-03-26 18:40 |
| #5 Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal lived and was awarded the Navy Cross. In a fire fight in a house in Fallujah, although wounded by seven 7.62 mm AK-47 rounds and hit by more than 40 pieces of hot fragmentation from a grenade while using his body to shield an injured fellow Marine, Kasal refused to quit fighting and is credited with saving the lives of several Marines during the U.S. assault on insurgent strongholds in Fallujah in November 2004. By the time he was carried out of the house by LCpl. Chris Marquez and LCpl. Dan Shaffer, Kasal had lost approximately 60 percent of his blood. The photograph of Kasal, taken by photographer Lucian Read — blood soaked and still holding his pistol and K-Bar knife — being helped from the building by fellow Marines, has become one of the iconic pictures of the war |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-26 15:48 |
| #4 Marine Corps Times The Marine Corps commandant said Wednesday that an investigator is reviewing a valor case that, if approved, would yield the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor in the war on terrorism. To date, five service members — two soldiers, two sailors and one Marine — have received the military’s top valor award for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, all posthumously. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-26 15:33 |
| #3 about time they awarded such a high medal too someone who lived too talk about it.I'm sure there are alot more soldiers out there who deserve them |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-03-26 12:40 |
| #2 The CMC is contemplating nominating a living Marine for the Medal, according to news reports. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2009-03-26 11:53 |
| #1 Give us a report, Pappy. These days the Navy Cross is essentially equivalent to the MOH. |
| Posted by: Spot 2009-03-26 08:26 |
