Marine 1st sergeant uses combat experience to save man hit by car
By Irene Loewenson
Thursday, Aug 11
A Marine first sergeant was driving through a small North Carolina town when he encountered a man lying in a nearby field, bearing injuries after being hit by a car.
The civilian man initially had no pulse, and bystanders told the Marine they assumed he was dead.
Then 1st Sgt. Jefferson Ortiz saved the man’s life.
“Everything that I saw led me to believe that someone needed help,” Ortiz was quoted as saying in a Tuesday Marine news story. “And that the people who were there did not understand, or were not comfortable with, providing that help. I figured that if I could make my way over there, see what was going on, and assess the situation to see if there was anything that I could do to help somebody … I wanted to do that.”
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2022/08/11/marine-1st-sergeant-uses-combat-experience-to-save-man-hit-by-car/
