That Marine Corps recruiting ad showing the Marine running towards the danger appears to be based on fact!
The assailant, who was arrested at the scene, has been identified as a 26-year-old Moroccan, Sliman Hamzi, an official with police union Alliance, said on French television i-Tele.
The “Marines” turned out to one active duty Air Force and an Army National Guardsman. The other American involved was a student going to school in Paris. The “marine” in the hospital, the one that almost got his head decapitated from the nutcase is the one in the Air Force.