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Mar 19, 2013

Marines with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, stand in formation during a Silver Star Medal award ceremony for Sgt. Wade Wilson here, March 14, 2013. Wilson, a native of Centerville, Texas, was posthumously awarded the nation's third highest award for valor for sacrificing his life to protect a wounded Marine from AK-47 fire in Musa Qa'leh district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, on May 11, 2012. Wilson drew his M-9 service pistol and advanced towards an insurgent, sustaining multiple gunshot wounds before driving the enemy from his position.

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