According to the Marine Corps Times a former Marine Corporal, Dakota Meyer, has been recommended for the Medal of Honor by the Marine Corps.

Cpl. Meyer would be the first living Marine recipient of the nation’s highest award for valor, since the Vietnam War. He will be the second Marine to receive the award since 9/11.   Cpl. Jason Dunham was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroically actions in Karabilah, Iraq, in 2004.

22-year-old Dakota Meyer has been nominated by the Marine Corps for heroism displayed in September 2009. Despite enemy fire, he pulled the bodies of three Marines and a Navy Corpsman from a kill zone in eastern Afghanistan.

According to the Times, Meyer’s recommendation stemmed from courage displayed on September 8, 2009. He had gone alone into a kill zone, on foot, in order to find three missing Marines and a Navy corpsman, despite the fact that he had already been wounded by shrapnel. He carried them out of the kill zone with the help of Afghan soldiers.

Commandant Gen. Jim Amos shared with reporters at Camp Pendleton on Saturday that a recommendation was made by Gen. James Conway, the last top officer of the Corps, prior to his retirement last October 22. He did not reveal, however, who the recommended Marine was, although he did express excitement over the recommendation of a living recipient.

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