Fort Stewart Soldier Saved Woman From Gators in Georgia

Soldier pulls woman from alligator-infested Fort Stewart pond
Army Times
Sep. 21, 2014

“I saw someone who needed help,” he said in the release. “I didn’t think, I just wanted to get the person out of the car.”

Pfc. Nathan Currie, an EOD specialist for the 756th Explosive Ordnance Detachment, rescued a woman after her car went into a pond at Fort Stewart, Georgia. (Army)

Like many soldiers in his situation, Pfc. Nathan Currie credited his Army training for informing his actions when he saved a woman from drowning last month at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

But few Army courses deal directly with diving into an alligator- and snake-infested pond to fish a stranger out of a sedan. That’s exactly what Currie, 28, did, interrupting his first fishing trip to Holbrook Pond after hearing a car splash into the water, according to an Army news release.

Currie, with 756th Explosive Ordnance Company, 63rd EOD Battalion, 52nd EOD Group, felt a body in the back seat of the car on his first dive, then went down again to retrieve the woman, according to the Tuesday release from 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives Command, his unit’s parent outfit.
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