thedrifter
09-29-08, 08:32 AM
Hometown honors for Lansdale Marine
By LOU SESSINGER
Bucks County Courier Times
Keep an eye out for Nick Galante. Beginning today his picture will be featured on a billboard on some SEPTA buses driving around the area.
The U.S. Marine Corps has selected Sgt. Nicholas J. Galante of Lansdale as one of its “Hometown Marines.”
It's a Marine Corps national ad campaign that features Marines who have distinguished themselves in the global war on terror.
Marines don't consider themselves heroes, but these guys are the real deal.
Galante, a 2003 graduate of North Penn High School, was awarded a bronze star medal with Combat “V” device for action against enemy insurgents near Fallujah, Iraq, in March 2007.
As a squad leader with a Mobile Assault Platoon of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, Galante took out three armed insurgents who had attacked a Marine unit.
A few days later, Galante, 23, was part of a patrol that came under attack near a small bridge.
According to the citation that accompanied his bronze star, Galante exposed himself to the enemy numerous times to lay down suppressive fire on the enemy.
His actions helped keep his fellow Marines safe and resulted in three enemy dead.
In June 2007 Galante earned the Purple Heart Medal when he took shrapnel wounds to his head, neck and back after a suicide bomber in a dump truck crashed into a Marine patrol base and blew himself up.
Galante's “Hometown Marine” bus billboard shows him in Marine dress blue uniform with medals displayed.
It reads: “Lansdale's Own Hometown Marine, Sgt. Nicholas J. Galante — Bronze Star with Combat "V for Valor' Recipient.
Galante, who played football and rugby at North Penn, will kick off his billboard display at a ceremony at Philadelphia's City Hall at 3 p.m. today.
His biography will be added to those of other Hometown Marines on the Web at http://our.marines.com.
Lou Sessinger can be contacted at 610-279-6153 or lsessinger@phillyBurbs.com.
September 29, 2008 7:56 AM
Ellie
By LOU SESSINGER
Bucks County Courier Times
Keep an eye out for Nick Galante. Beginning today his picture will be featured on a billboard on some SEPTA buses driving around the area.
The U.S. Marine Corps has selected Sgt. Nicholas J. Galante of Lansdale as one of its “Hometown Marines.”
It's a Marine Corps national ad campaign that features Marines who have distinguished themselves in the global war on terror.
Marines don't consider themselves heroes, but these guys are the real deal.
Galante, a 2003 graduate of North Penn High School, was awarded a bronze star medal with Combat “V” device for action against enemy insurgents near Fallujah, Iraq, in March 2007.
As a squad leader with a Mobile Assault Platoon of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, Galante took out three armed insurgents who had attacked a Marine unit.
A few days later, Galante, 23, was part of a patrol that came under attack near a small bridge.
According to the citation that accompanied his bronze star, Galante exposed himself to the enemy numerous times to lay down suppressive fire on the enemy.
His actions helped keep his fellow Marines safe and resulted in three enemy dead.
In June 2007 Galante earned the Purple Heart Medal when he took shrapnel wounds to his head, neck and back after a suicide bomber in a dump truck crashed into a Marine patrol base and blew himself up.
Galante's “Hometown Marine” bus billboard shows him in Marine dress blue uniform with medals displayed.
It reads: “Lansdale's Own Hometown Marine, Sgt. Nicholas J. Galante — Bronze Star with Combat "V for Valor' Recipient.
Galante, who played football and rugby at North Penn, will kick off his billboard display at a ceremony at Philadelphia's City Hall at 3 p.m. today.
His biography will be added to those of other Hometown Marines on the Web at http://our.marines.com.
Lou Sessinger can be contacted at 610-279-6153 or lsessinger@phillyBurbs.com.
September 29, 2008 7:56 AM
Ellie