Related: The Best Pocket Knives Members of Bellavia’s platoon came to his aid shortly after his vicious struggle with the insurgent ended -- a struggle that the future Medal of Honor recipient ...

David Bellavia with the Medal of Honor in a ... who engaged him in hand-to-hand combat, forcing the soldier to pull out his Gerber Rex Applegate folding knife and kill him. The Gerber Applegate ...

Henry Johnson didn’t need elevated rank to prove his worth—just a rifle, a bolo knife, and the guts to take on a German ...

Tercell Byrd, a rifleman with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, was presented the Navy and Marine Corps Medal during an outdoor ... he found a man clutching a knife in one hand and the motel ...

Several Springfield Police Officers-- Sergeant Matt Benoit and Officer James Williams--received the Medal of Valor ... holding a large kitchen knife in his left hand." Police said that Kingsbury ...

The knife-hand is as synonymous with Marine Corps culture as crayon eating, though it is perhaps slightly more iconic. “The origins of the military knife hand are shrouded in mystery and legend ...

At a May 2 ceremony, Brooks was awarded the Christophorus Medal, which recognizes ... kind and – with my left hand – smacked it away from his right hand, and the knife flew away.” ...

On Thursday, Brooks was awarded the Christophorus Medal by ... smacked the knife away and jumped on top of him.” Security arrived a short time later. The woman had a slight hand injury from ...

WHEN father-of-three Robert McNally reached for the hand of a violent prisoner armed with a makeshift knife, he never imagined ... Corio prison guard with the Medal of Valour at Parliament House ...