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ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga., - Airmen from the 202nd Engineering Installation Squadron, Georgia Air National Guard, perform a life-saving act for a wheel-chair bound woman at Cracker Barrel in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 5.
Senior Airman Wilson B. Gardner and Airman 1st Class Joseph S. Ferraris along with Airman 1st Class Austin J. Payne, Oklahoma Air National Guard, were waiting to place their orders when a woman at the table next to them began choking.
Gardner said that initially a waitress began giving the woman the Heimlich maneuver, however, the woman started turning blue and began to lose consciousness.
‘Stand her up!’ a woman yelled across the restaurant and in that moment, Ferraris and Payne quickly ran to the victim and stood her up from her wheelchair. Gardner said he then began administering the Heimlich maneuver, successfully clearing food from her throat.
“She started gasping and spitting so we laid her on her side to so she could spit out the rest,” said Gardner.
First responders arrived on-scene and treated the woman.
The Airmen were in Pennsylvania, attending an electrical SIPT course at the Lightning Force Academy in Annville.
Prior to the course, Gardner was the first 202nd EIS Airman to be coined by Gen. John E. Hyten, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, one of nine Unified commands under the Department of Defense.
| Date Taken: | 04.07.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 04.08.2017 14:11 |
| Story ID: | 229696 |
| Location: | ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA, US |
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