April 9, 2023
Valiant Marine trio save the day at a Virginia Chick-fil-A
By Rajan Laad
It seemed like a quiet Saturday afternoon in Stafford County, Virginia on the 1st April, also known as April Fool’s Day in some parts of the world.
Three Marines, namely Cpl. John Darby, Cpl. Bradley Feldkamp, and Lance Cpl. Nicholas Dural, who had stepped out to get their haircuts, decided to stop by the nearby Chick-fil-A for a meal.
The men had finished their training to become Marine Security Guards at Marine Corps Base Quantico a few weeks ago and were awaiting their visas and flights to their posts overseas.
At the Chick-fil-A outlet, they noticed a man being confronted by two young men. What began as an argument devolved into an altercation resulting in one of the assailants colliding with a woman standing nearby.
This caused one of the Marines, Dural, to approach the woman to make sure she was unharmed.
By that time, one of the young assailants had pulled out a knife.
When Dural saw the weapon, his Marine Security Guard training on defensive tactics and combat kicked in. He immediately grabbed the base of the assailant’s hand in which he held the knife. As Dural was twisting the assailant's wrist, he was able to overpower him and seize control of the weapon.
The pressure applied by Dural was so considerable that the knife snapped into two pieces; the handle, and blade flew into the air and then slid across the floor.
Dural then signaled his fellow Marine, John Darby, to seize the blade.
Darby, who was speaking to the woman who was pushed during the scuffle, immediately stepped on the blade and kicked it away from the two attackers.
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