Marine colonel awards medal to corporal who saved his life
By Irene Loewenson
Dec 28, 04:44 PM
Marine Col. Carlos Urbina was having lunch with a friend in a restaurant on the Marine base in Quantico, Virginia, on Nov. 14 when he started to feel unwell.
The colonel, who serves as the director of the command element of the Capabilities Development Directorate’s information division, thought nothing of it at first. But then he went into sudden cardiac arrest, he told reporters.
Luckily for Urbina, also eating lunch at the S&G restaurant were Air Force doctor Capt. Jennifer Fields and Marine Cpl. Chase Portello.
Fields rushed to him, and Portello — who got his EMT training in 2018 while a firefighter in Fort Mill, South Carolina — followed to offer his help.
“There’s a Marine that needs help,” Portello recalled thinking. “I know I can, so I got up and helped.”
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