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U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Ryan Sharp, center, a quality assurance representative with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Training Squadron 303, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, is awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal during a ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 29, 2021. Sharp received the award for actions he took when a plane crashed in a Valley Center neighborhood May 31, 2020. Sharp and other bystanders worked together to pull a young passenger from the burning plane, saving her life. Sharp is a native of Vista, California. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Stephen Beard)

Marines with Guard Company were presented a Certificate of Appreciation and a challenge coin by Deputy Chief Sean M. Egan, deputy chief of the DC Fire Department, Dec. 9, 2020. The Marines received the awards for their heroic actions on Nov. 7 when they helped save a woman's life who was struck by a vehicle outside their post.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Zachary Armijo speaks about the joint surgical field training exercise in Combat Town, Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan May 21, 2019. Armijo, with 3rd Medical Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, is a native of Littleton, Colorado.(U.S. Marine Corps motion imagery by Cpl. Jamin M. Powell)

U.S. Marines assigned to 3rd Radio Battalion utilize the Modular Amphibious Egress Trainer (MAET) at the base pool, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, May 5, 2018. The MAET prepares service members to identify and utilize aircraft emergency exits in case of an emergency landing over water. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Aaron S. Patterson)

U.S. Marine Cpls. Otto Thiele, Eric Goodman, and Christopher Ehms and Lance Cpls. Antonio Martinez and Avelardo Guevara Osuna came together to assist a local Japanese woman during their hike on Mt. Fuji, Japan, July 3, 2017. The woman, Oda Moe, was found lying on the ground and hyperventilating when the Marines came to her assistance. Together, they created a makeshift stretcher to carry her down the mountain, approximately two miles, to get medical assistance at a police station. The Marines are with Electronics Maintenance Company, 3rd Maintenance Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 35, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force.

The search and rescue unit aboard Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, conducted a search and rescue mission to find 32 lost Boy Scouts on the Colorado River, Saturday evening. The SAR team utilized their skills to help the community and showed that everyone’s safety is of the utmost concern to SAR and MCAS Yuma. As an essential asset to MCAS Yuma, SAR’s primary mission is to provide search and rescue support during military flight operations within a 100 nautical mile radius of the air station, but it also supports the local community when help is needed.

Marines and sailors gather at the gym on Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Aug. 23. They were not there to pump iron but to pump blood for the blood drive on base.