{"id":32053,"date":"2024-03-14T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/03\/14\/marine-receives-rare-heroism-award-for-saving-victim-shot-23-times\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:01:20","slug":"marine-receives-rare-heroism-award-for-saving-victim-shot-23-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2024\/03\/14\/marine-receives-rare-heroism-award-for-saving-victim-shot-23-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine receives rare heroism award for saving victim shot 23 times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Marine Sgt. Amed Issa heard gunshots while at a bar in Honolulu with his friend, he at first assumed they were fireworks. After all, it was Jan. 6, 2023, only a few days after New Year\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Issa saw two men with guns just outside. He dashed toward them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His actions that night would save the life of a man who had been shot 23 times, according to the victim \u2014 and, a little more than a year later, would earn him the Marine Corps\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/01\/29\/four-marines-receive-rare-medal-for-rescuing-drowning-mother-daughters-in-north-carolina-on-fathers-day-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\">top award<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/01\/08\/marine-earns-rare-medal-for-noncombat-bravery\/\" target=\"_blank\">for noncombat heroism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/03\/19\/lance-corporal-awarded-highest-medal-for-non-combat-bravery-for-rescuing-a-drowning-elderly-man\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Navy-and-Marine-medal.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Lance corporal awarded highest medal for non-combat bravery for rescuing a drowning elderly man<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cI knew he needed help, and I just went,\u201d Ballow said in the release. \u201cIf someone needs help and you\u2019re there and you can help them, then do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Issa, now 25, decided to become a Marine when he was 18, he said in an interview with Marine Corps Times on Tuesday. He turned down a full ride to Ohio State University because it didn\u2019t feel right to him to pursue the privilege of college without first serving overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Issa enlisted in the Marine Corps because it was the hardest branch and he hoped its like-minded individuals would push him to be a better person. He became an infantryman because the job is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/04\/02\/every-marine-a-rifleman-still-relevant-says-sergeant-major-of-the-corps\/\" target=\"_blank\">core to the service\u2019s mission<\/a>, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January 2023, Issa was serving with the infantry unit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2023\/01\/27\/hawaii-marine-infantry-unit-folds-while-refueling-unit-activates\/\">3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines<\/a>, at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The night of the shooting, he and a fellow Marine had wrapped up dinner at Olive Garden and walked into a bar in the Waikiki neighborhood of Honolulu in search of a bathroom. They had been there for only a few minutes when the gunfire started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Issa saw the gunmen, he initially thought they were trying to enter the bar. He rushed toward the pair, pushing a few people behind a table to cover them as he went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then he realized the shooters were targeting someone on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just felt like I was on a range,\u201d Issa said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it was one of those blocks that I had from being in the Marine Corps infantry, but at the time I didn\u2019t feel like there was any danger associated with shooting, but I did feel like there was danger for the victim.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two gunmen escaped, but one of them sporadically was shooting back at the victim as he ran away, Issa recalled. In those moments, the Marine exposed himself to the fire to attend to the victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Issa relied on the casualty care simulations he had run through in training. He took off the victim\u2019s shirt and checked him for bullet wounds, of which there were several.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Issa felt a warm sensation on his knees, which were applying pressure near the victim\u2019s crotch to cut off the femoral artery. It was blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Realizing that the victim\u2019s legs needed attention, Issa removed the flannel shirt from his own body and fashioned a makeshift tourniquet for the right leg. He got someone to bring him a fork to tighten the tourniquet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When two police officers arrived, Issa received from them a pair of real tourniquets that he used on the victim\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim was awake but not responding, and Issa and his friend talked to him to keep him conscious. Issa said he would later learn the man had been shot 23 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the paramedics arrived, Issa recounted the aid he had provided and told them where the major gunshots were. The paramedics put the victim in an ambulance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Issa said he also told the police what he could about the gunmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case later was classified as second-degree attempted murder, the Honolulu Police Department told Marine Corps Times on Wednesday. No arrests were made, the police said, and the victim withdrew his complaint and did not want to prosecute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immediately afterward, Issa\u2019s primary feeling was worry over the fate of the man who had been shot, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut at the same time, I think I was just like, \u2018What just happened? That felt like a dream,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd to this day, it continues to feel like a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel like I was the person who did that,\u201d Issa added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That night, Issa told his first sergeant that there had been a shooting, though he gave few details. But three Marine officers who happened to have been at the bar and witnessed Issa\u2019s actions informed his command, Issa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Col. Felix Guerra III, Issa\u2019s former battalion commander, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/437035\/us-marine-runs-toward-gunfire-applies-lifesaving-aid-waikiki-shooting\">a Marine news release<\/a> in the weeks after the shooting, \u201cIt takes tremendous courage to do what Sgt. Issa did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe risked his life and took action for a complete stranger. He embodied what it means to be a Marine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since January 2023, Issa has departed Hawaii and started school at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He is studying for a bachelor\u2019s degree, in exercise science, that will allow him to become a Marine officer. He said his hope is to serve as an aviator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim survived the shooting and reached out to Issa months later to thank him. The two men still text from time to time, Issa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Feb. 19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/education\/blog\/2024\/usf-student-recieves-award-us-marine-corps.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Issa received<\/a> the Navy and Marine Corps Medal from Navy Capt. Michael Puffer, the commanding officer of the Naval ROTC at the University of South Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The medal \u2014 the highest award for heroism outside of combat \u2014 recognizes service members who have taken heroic actions at the risk of their own lives. It\u2019s a rare honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, for now, Issa\u2019s medal is tucked away in a storage container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Issa said he means no disrespect to those who put in effort to secure him the recognition. It\u2019s just that he didn\u2019t want an award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because, in his view, what he did is just what anyone should try to do in that situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t think that any life is more important than another,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sgt. 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