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Something that didn't make the news.(Scan)
Maybe you'd like to hear about something other than idiot Reservists and naked Iraqis. Maybe you'd like to hear about a soldier who honored the uniform he wears. Meet Brian Chontosh.
Upstate New York boy. Proud graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Husband and soon-to-be father. First lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. And a genuine hero.
Recently, the secretary of the Navy presented Brian Chontosh with the Navy Cross, the second highest award for combat bravery the United States can bestow. But it wasn't mentioned on the network news, or even in Brian's hometown newspaper.
It was a year ago on the march into Baghdad. Brian Chontosh was a platoon leader rolling up Highway 1 in a humvee when all hell broke loose. An ambush, The young Marines were being cut to ribbons. Mortars, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades. And the small-town upstate New York kid was in charge. It was do or die, and it was up to him.
So he looked for a way to lead his men to safety. As he tried to poke a hole through the Iraqi line, his humvee came under direct enemy machine gun fire. It was fish in a barrel and the Marines were the fish. So Brian Chontosh gave the order to attack.
He told his driver to floor the humvee directly at the machine gun emplacement firing at them. And he had the guy on top with the .50 cal unload on the enemy shooters. Within moments Iraqis slumped across the machine gun, and Chontosh was still advancing, ordering his driver to take the humvee straight into the trench full of Iraqis attacking his Marines. Over ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Something that didn't make the news.(Scan)