A Marine stationed in Twentynine Palms will be awarded the Navy Cross during a ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center on Friday.
Lance Corporal Brady A. Gustafson, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, a turret gunner from Eagan, MN, "Enabled his fellow Marines to fight their way out of a complex ambush July 21 while deployed to the Farah province, Afghanistan. Despite sustaining a severe traumatic injury to his right leg, Gustafson identified the enemy positions and engaged them with machine-gun fire and thus afforded the Marines involved time to escape the 'kill zone.'"
The Navy Cross, aside from the Medal of Honor, is the highest award a Marine is eligible to receive.
I plan on being there. 2/7 took significant casualties in Afghanistan. |