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Honor under fire

January 19, 2007 by Muir Scouter.

An Honor for Valor Under Fire

Midshipman Aided Secret Service Agent Amid Mall Gunfight

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 19, 2007; Page B03

Naval Academy Midshipman Roarke Baldwin had gone to an Annapolis mall to catch the latest James Bond flick when he found himself in what could have been a scene from an action movie with rapid gunfire, fleeing bystanders and screaming parents herding their children to safety.

Instantly, Baldwin made a decision: He ran toward the gunfire, past the fleeing bystanders and, most significantly, to the aid of a man shopping with his family.

As it turned out, the man — more Jack Bauer than Bond — was a federal agent, who, like the hero of the TV show “24,” took matters into his own hands, engaging in a gun battle and interceding in a fight between two groups of young men in the mall’s food court. When the Secret Service agent went down after being shot in the leg, Baldwin rushed to help.

“I’m not sure I would have done the same thing if it had happened again,” said Baldwin, a 19-year-old first-year midshipman from Florence, Mont.

For his actions Nov. 18, which included administering first aid to the agent at Westfield Shoppingtown Annapolis, Baldwin was awarded yesterday with the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, which is given to “junior officers and enlisted personnel who distinguish themselves by outstanding professional achievement or leadership,” according to the academy. Baldwin attributed his actions to “years of Scouting” — and to his parents. . . . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011801763.html


Duty to God and Country,
Duty to Others,
and Duty to Self.

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