Marine with Silver Star stabbed in the neck for being a Marine

Marine who received Silver Star recovering after weekend stabbing
Marine Corps Times
By Hope Hodge Seck
Staff Writer
Sep. 9, 2013

A veteran Marine who received the Silver Star last year is in the hospital after being stabbed in the neck over the weekend. Now fellow Marines from his unit in Afghanistan are rallying to his side.

Philip McCulloch Jr., 25, received a serious knife wound from a stranger outside a waterfront bar in Galveston, Texas, at about 1 a.m. Saturday, according to police reports. He had medically retired from the Marines as a sergeant in April after being pinned with the military’s third-highest combat award in February 2012.

McCulloch’s mother, Theresa McCulloch, said her son had been out with friends and ended up at a bar where another patron, noticing his Marine tattoos, began insulting and harassing him. The bartender eventually threw the unruly patron out, she said, but he waited outside for McCulloch to emerge.

The two fought in the street, she said, and the other man stabbed McCulloch in the neck with a knife, slicing into his outer jugular. As he bled profusely, she said, he gave instructions to a friend on how to staunch the flow of blood with his fingers.
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