A couple of soldiers from Camp Humphreys were recognized recently in the Stars & Stripes for their efforts in saving a Korean girl from drowning at Haeundae Beach this month:

When Pfc. Richard Bigouette was about 5 years old in Houston, his father, a Gulf War Navy vet, taught him how to swim. Dad heaved him into the pool and told him to paddle like the family dog.

“And after he noticed I couldn’t go anymore, he jumped in and helped me. It was fun,” said Bigouette (pronounced Bee-zhoo-ette), who works as an Apache helicopter weapons system technician at Camp Humphreys in South Korea. He’s with Company B, 602nd Aviation Support Battalion, part of the 2nd Infantry Division’s 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade.

The genial and athletic Bigouette, 18, is now being called a hero — and catching lots of good-natured kidding from his buddies — for rescuing a frantic Korean schoolgirl who got out of her depth at Haeundae Beach.  [Franklin Fisher - Stars & Stripes]

Read the rest to see how they saved the young girl who was drowning in the ocean at the beach.  Great job by these two and any recognition they receive is well deserved.

I have to wonder if they wouldn’t have preferred to have rescued one of these girls at Haeundae Beach instead?