2 Camp Pendleton Marines receive highest Marine Corps non-combat award for life-saving actions during Route 91 Harvest festival shooting
CAMP PENDLETON — The moment country music artist Jason Aldean stopped singing at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017, two Marines in the crowd heard gunfire and their training kicked in.
“We looked at each other and said, ‘We’ve got to go help,’†Sgt. Austin Cox, a 26-year-old flightline mechanic for Marine Light Training Squadron 303, part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, said Monday, April 29. “Our adrenaline was rushing. You just full-blown go. As people ran out, we ran towards chaos.â€
On Monday, Cox and Marine veteran Sgt. Michael Vura, 26, were awarded Navy and Marine Corps Medals for exceptional bravery and selfless actions in saving lives and preventing serious bodily harm of others around them during the largest mass shooting in modern American history. Fifty-eight people were killed and more than 500 were injured in the shooting.
The awards were signed by Marine Corps Commandant Robert B. Neller for President Donald Trump.
Read more at: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/04/29/2-camp-pendleton-marines-receive-highest-marine-corps-non-combat-award-for-life-saving-actions-during-route-91-harvest-festival-shooting/
This was when that kook fired at the people from his hotel window in Las Vegas but I never heard about this.
