Marine Posthumously Awarded Silver Star Medal
First Lt. Also Received Bronze Star Medal
POSTED: 10:44 am PST December 9, 2008
SAN DIEGO -- A Camp Pendleton Marine was posthumously awarded a Silver Star medal for pulling two other wounded Marines to safety during an ambush before being killed by an enemy sniper in Iraq, base officials announced Tuesday.
First Lt. Travis Manion's father, Marine Col. Tom Manion, and his wife, Janet Manion, accepted the medal on their son's behalf Friday in a ceremony held in Doylestown, Pa.
Manion, who also received the Bronze Star medal for acts of heroism in Iraq, was killed in April while training Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah.
First Lt. Also Received Bronze Star Medal
POSTED: 10:44 am PST December 9, 2008
SAN DIEGO -- A Camp Pendleton Marine was posthumously awarded a Silver Star medal for pulling two other wounded Marines to safety during an ambush before being killed by an enemy sniper in Iraq, base officials announced Tuesday.
First Lt. Travis Manion's father, Marine Col. Tom Manion, and his wife, Janet Manion, accepted the medal on their son's behalf Friday in a ceremony held in Doylestown, Pa.
Manion, who also received the Bronze Star medal for acts of heroism in Iraq, was killed in April while training Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah.
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