Posted on 07/06/2021 1:31:10 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Byrd, a native of Newport News, Va., was only four weeks out of boot camp on April 28, 2018, when he received his first off-base liberty from Parris Island, S.C.
"It was my first time being off of the island," he said in the news release. He traveled to Savannah, Ga., got a motel room and slept late the next day.
As Byrd was returning to his room from breakfast that morning and was crossing the lobby, he heard shrieks coming from a hallway behind the reception desk.
"The next scream was just horrible," he said. "That scream was enough for me to jump over the counter to go see what was happening."
After sprinting down the hallway toward the commotion, he found a man clutching a knife in one hand and the motel receptionist’s hair by the other. He saw blood dripping from her hand.
At the sight of the blood, Byrd sprang into action, jumping toward the attacker and knocking him to the ground.
Byrd pulled the woman behind him.
"He was trying to stab me, and I was trying to take the knife out of his hand, but he was strong," he said. "He wasn't normal. He was on something."
Byrd repeatedly pounded the man in the head with his knee until the man gave up the attack and fled.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Yes, well done.
The young man did both the Marine Corps and his family proud.
The young man did both the Marine Corps and his family proud.
Samper Fi!
Wow, he surely deserves that medal! That woman might not even be alive today if not for him.
The stabber stole $400. during the knife attack, but he turned himself in the following day.
**No picture. No name.
Regardless, I fully respect that Marine for rescuing that woman.
Darryl Kevin Morgan
Thanks Ken H.
Good job young hero!
Semper Fi Marine!
A US Marine.
No greater friend, no worse enemy
ooooh-rah! way to go Marine.
More Marines. Fewer drug-crazed, over sexualized, America-Hating, beasts.
American Lives Matter.
That’s why we have Marines.
Semper Fi, Devil Dog!
Git some!
....one of my best friends in life, now deceased, started in the Marine Corp as a Private. 25 odd years later he was a General.
This marine has a future in the Corp if he’s careful and follows the rules.
“RUNNING TO THE SOUND OF BATTLE!”
BOOYAH
Top man!
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