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Marine couple saves over a dozen hikers after Okinawa flash flood
Philip Athey
 

It was a fun family activity that two Marines in Okinawa, Japan, were seeking when they went on a jungle hike in September 2020.

Master Gunnery Sgt. Ronald Thomas and Master Sgt. Sara Thomas had taken their family on nature walk in the dense jungle at Ta-Taki Falls.

But instead of enjoying the rope climbs and views alongside the Henan River, the trek turned deadly when a sudden storm caused the clear blue water to turn into a brown rushing torrent, endangering the lives of all on the trail that day.

“The first thing that came to my mind was that we need to make sure we get everybody out of there safely,” Ronald Thomas, the distribution management chief with III Marine Expeditionary Force, said in a press release.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/06/18/marine-couple-saves-over-a-dozen-hikers-after-okinawa-flash-flood/