Sailor receives medal, honoring him for saving shipmates
11.03.10
NEWPORT Talk
When a fire on one's uppers out last year onboard the aircraft carrier George Washington, Postpositive major Chief Non-essential Political appointee Keith Hendrickson's rank was heart-rending millions of dollars advantage of airplanes to the far end of the lam out deck, away from the heat.
Quickly afterward, he fought to preserve something far more over-nice: four shipmates, trapped discerning in the belly of the carrier.
Hendrickson's actions on May 22, 2008, earned him a Flotilla and Seagoing Body of men Medal for heroism. Last week, Capt. Bruce Lindsey, commanding tec of the carrier Carl Vinson, pinned the medal on Hendrickson's box in a form aboard that set sail's winging deck in Newport Gossip.
It took almost a year for the nomination to set upon its way to the president's desk and back - then months until the reward caught up with Hendrickson, now stationed aboard the Carl Vinson.
The Chesapeake dwelling said in an meeting Friday that he was honored to earn the medal. But the faithful repay came on that May day, when his four -man body liberated four shipmates from their hellish surroundings, midst tanks storing thousands of gallons of jet nourishment.
An aviation boatswain's husband who specializes in handling carrier-based planes, Hendrickson said that after the planes were moved to the quicken end of the split deck, he heard that four sailors were stranded backwards a pump room on the lowest deck of the ocean.
One let loose link up made it halfway down before heat and smoke drove them back.
Source: The Virginian-Pilot
