Photo By Sgt. 1st Class Matt Scotten | 1st Lt. David E. Bryant, Greenwood, Ind., native and demobilization officer at Camp...... read more read more
CAMP ATTERBURY JOINT MANEUVER TRAINING CENTER, Ind. — 1st Lt. David E. Bryant, a Greenwood, Ind., native and demobilization officer at Camp Atterbury, was recognized, Aug. 16, by being awarded the Indiana Distinguished Service Medal for saving the life of a fellow passenger on an airline flight earlier this year.
Bryant sat in an exit row seat on a flight from Indianapolis to Minneapolis in late January 2011 without having the slightest idea that another man’s life would be in his hands. When the call came for him to act, however, he was ready.
Bryant overheard another passenger, Amy Noah, tell a flight attendant that her husband, Barry, wasn’t responding to anything, and she thought there was something wrong with him. The flight attendant just told her that he was “busy” and couldn’t help her right then. Bryant immediately got up from his seat to offer help.
“When I got to Mr. Noah, I thought he was either choking or in cardiac arrest. He wasn’t responding to anything at all,” said Bryant. “I snapped my fingers in front of his face, trying to get his attention, and he didn’t even notice.”
Bryant immediately reverted back to the training he received in his combat lifesaver class and began treating Noah.
“For a while there, he wasn’t breathing, and I had to resuscitate him,” said Bryant. “After I got him breathing again, I had to lay him down, prop his feet up, and stay there with him, treating him for shock and keeping him comfortable. It was nothing that any other soldier wouldn’t have done.”
Barry was kept stable enough for the plane to land in Minneapolis where he was treated in a local hospital for three days before being transferred to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for 10 more days to be treated for neurological problems.
| Date Taken: | 08.16.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 08.17.2011 13:56 |
| Story ID: | 75506 |
| Location: | CAMP ATTERBURY, IN, US |
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