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03-26-09, 08:45 AM
March 26, 2009
Marine to receive Navy Cross for valor
Staff reports
A Marine stationed in Twentynine Palms will be awarded the Navy Cross during a ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center on Friday.
According to a news release issued by Marine Corps officials, Lance Cpl. Brady A. Gustafson, a turret gunner from Eagan, Minn., “Enabled his fellow Marines to fight their way out of a complex ambush July 21 while deployed to the Farah province, Afghanistan.
“Despite sustaining a severe traumatic injury to his right leg, Gustafson identified the enemy positions and engaged them with machine-gun fire and thus afforded the Marines involved time to escape the ‘kill zone.'”
Gustafson serves in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.
The Navy Cross, aside from the Medal of Honor, is the highest award a Marine is eligible to receive.
Ellie
Marine to receive Navy Cross for valor
Staff reports
A Marine stationed in Twentynine Palms will be awarded the Navy Cross during a ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center on Friday.
According to a news release issued by Marine Corps officials, Lance Cpl. Brady A. Gustafson, a turret gunner from Eagan, Minn., “Enabled his fellow Marines to fight their way out of a complex ambush July 21 while deployed to the Farah province, Afghanistan.
“Despite sustaining a severe traumatic injury to his right leg, Gustafson identified the enemy positions and engaged them with machine-gun fire and thus afforded the Marines involved time to escape the ‘kill zone.'”
Gustafson serves in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.
The Navy Cross, aside from the Medal of Honor, is the highest award a Marine is eligible to receive.
Ellie