Staff Sgt. Brian C. Stirrat, a recruiter with RSS Wichita, RS Oklahoma City, is reunited with 3-year-old Enrique Santos, whose life he saved while on liberty March 26. Photo by: OFFICIAL USMC PHOTO
Posted on 05/18/2005 4:20:29 PM PDT by AZHua87
NEW ORLEANS, La. (May 17, 2005) -- A district Marine was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for his role in the recent rescue of a choking toddler.
Staff Sgt. Brian C. Stirrat was spending a quiet weekend afternoon in his townhouse when he was startled by frantic screams from his neighbor, Letecia Santos. "She said my son is choking, my son is choking, please help me," explained the 26-year-old canvassing recruiter assigned to Recruiting Station Oklahoma City, Recruiting Sub-station Wichita, Kan.
Stirrat quickly leapt over the barrier between the two apartments and assessed the situation. He discovered 3-year-old Enrique Santos unconscious, and being tended to by his grandfather. "The little boy was in a limp state... blue in the face and not a lot of reaction," Stirrat explained. "The grandfather was trying to do the Heimlich maneuver, but it just wasn't working."
With a growing number of concerned friends and relatives filing into the small room, Stirrat took over life saving duties from the grandfather.
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Bring your hanky
You'd never see this story in the neocommie, anti-American media!
Maybe we should forward this to our recruiter buddies!!
Staff Sgt. Brian C. Stirrat, a recruiter with RSS Wichita, RS Oklahoma City, is reunited with 3-year-old Enrique Santos, whose life he saved while on liberty March 26. Photo by: OFFICIAL USMC PHOTO
Looks like this is his second NAM; he's already wearing one. I would have bumped it up to a Navy Comm.
bump!
Amen! Thank God for FR and the FreeperFamily.
Or the anti-recruiting people just to make them mad!
Hero bump.
Bump.....
Good that he was there and knew what to do.
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