6 unarmed soldiers who tackled Fort Stewart gunman awarded medals

• "Under duress and fire, they ran into battle to the sound of the gunfire, took down the assailant, and then took care of their comrades, and that made all the difference," Driscoll said. "The heroism shown under fire is something that we should all aspire to know."

Zoom in: Brig. Gen. John Lubas at the briefing praised those who quickly applied first aid to the wounded soldiers while waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.

• "When we spoke to the surgeons in the hospital, it was clear that the actions they took, primarily stopping that bleeding before they were loaded up into ambulances and quickly evacuated to Winn Army Medical, certainly saved their lives," Lubas said.

The big picture: The six soldiers Driscoll awarded the Meritorious Service Medal to are: Sgt. Aaron Turner, Master Sgt. Justin Thomas, Staff Sgt. Robert Pacheco, Sgt. Eve Rodarte, 1st Sgt. Joshua Arnold and Sgt. Melissa Taylor.

• Three of the five injured soldiers have been released from the hospital, while two were still receiving treatment, per Lubas.
• The suspect, Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, has been placed in pretrial confinement.

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