Marine Corps Times
Joshua Stewart
Jul. 21, 2014
Some Marine Corps training will stick with you for life — and sometimes, it will help save a life.
Ramon Morales, a police officer with the Richmond Police Department in Texas, pulled a woman from an oncoming freight train last month. The Marine veteran said he credits his quick action to the training he received while in the Corps.
“I didn’t think about it, I just reacted,” Morales told Marine Corps Times.” The Marine Corps puts you in a position to think about others before you.”
Morales, a former corporal who served as an aircraft rescue and firefighting specialist, recently joined the police department. At about 1 a.m. on June 22, he said he was wrapping up a call at a bar and was sitting in a parking lot when a person there flagged him down.
He was told there was a distraught woman sitting on nearby train tracks, and he sped off to help.
Video captured from his police car shows him arriving at the tracks just as the crossing bells and lights went on, and as the vehicle barriers fall into place. He ran out of his car and pulled a sobbing woman to safety — just seconds before an oncoming freight train rolled by with its horn blaring.
He is, however, using his moment in the spotlight to encourage people — including Marines — to help prevent suicide.read more here
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