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Airman recognized with NCOA Vanguard Award for lifesaving actions
August 12, 2026 — "He kept saying he thought he was gonna die and he didn't want to die. I kept telling him, I got you. It's going to be okay." She was kneeling in the middle of Dorchester Road, with her hands pressed against a teenager’s gunshot wound when she said those words. Minutes earlier, she had been driving a government vehicle off base on a routine errand, dropping off a truck for maintenance. The first sign that something was wrong was almost nothing at all. Then, pedestrians were running across the busy roadway in the middle of the day. Cars had stopped, a crowd had gathered and someone lay motionless in the street...