{"id":26163,"date":"2018-05-30T19:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T19:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/30\/these-quick-thinking-airmen-helped-save-a-womans-life\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:44:35","slug":"these-quick-thinking-airmen-helped-save-a-womans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/05\/30\/these-quick-thinking-airmen-helped-save-a-womans-life\/","title":{"rendered":"These quick-thinking airmen helped save a woman\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three airmen are being lauded for their quick response after a local woman jumped off a bridge while U.S. troops were participating in an exercise in Panama<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master. Sgt. Reina Blake, Senior Airman Ariel Thomas and Office of Special Investigations Agent Alexandra Garced were in Meteti, Panama, in early May as part of Exercise New Horizons<\/a> 2018, according to a U.S. Southern Command<\/a> news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three were on their way back to their hotel May 2, after spending the day helping<\/a> with local construction projects, when they saw a crowd looking over the side of a bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roughly 30 feet below, a woman lay on her back, injured, according to SOUTHCOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locals told the airmen the woman was drunk and had jumped off the bridge. Thomas, a medical technician, immediately led the three down to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She stabilized the injured woman\u2019s neck and they moved the at-times belligerent and verbally abusive woman onto her side so she wouldn\u2019t choke on her own vomit.<\/p>\n\n\n\t