Men of Honor - PFC Michael Ballard & PFC Jonathan Heck
Soldiers OK after fire rescue attempt By Erik Slavin, Stars and Stripes - Pacific edition, Sunday, September 2, 2007
These two young men, PFC Michael Ballard & PFC Jonathan Heck of Alpha Company, 702nd Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division and Bravo Company, 302nd Brigade Support Battalion respectively, entered a burning home to save the occupants not knowing that the home was empty. While there was nobody inside the building and they both suffered smoke inhalation they don't regret their decision. Clearly they worked together as well. I'm sure their platoon sergeants are damn happy to have such soldiers.
However, such heroism is not unprecedented in the ROK. Last year PV2 Russell McCanless, PV2 Reid Erickson and SSG David Newman saved a paralyzed woman and her mother from a burning building outside Camp Red Cloud in Uijeongbu.
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