Fort Carson soldier used Army training to save gunshot victim

Carson soldier used Army training to save gunshot victim
Army Times
By Joe Gould
Staff writer
Sep. 11, 2013

A soldier at Fort Carson, Colo., has been honored for administering first aid to a gunshot victim on the streets of suburban Colorado Springs.

Cpl. Erich Kelsch ran to save a 17-year-old who was shot in the leg by an unknown assailant and managed to stop the bleeding using his Army training. He was aided by fellow Fort Carson soldier, Spc. Matthew L. Hardy of the 759th Military Police Battalion.

Kelsch never got a thank you from the victim or his family, but he never expected one.

“We didn’t expect any praise or thank you, we just did what we would hope someone would do for us,” Kelsch, of Folsom, Calif., told Army Times. “I heard that he was recovering through a newscast on TV.”
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