Great job by this US Air Force Colonel who was at the right person to be at the right place at the right time to save these girls’ lives:

The Air Force officer who last year dashed to the rescue of two Zambian girls drowning near Victoria Falls will be honored by Zambia’s president.

Col. Keith E. Andrews is to receive a medal in May for pulling the teens to shore after they fell into the fast-moving waters of the Zambezi River, just 180 feet from where Victoria Falls plunges 360 feet.

“People keep calling me a ‘hero.’ I don’t want to be a hero,” said Andrews, chief of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance with the 607th Air and Space Operations Center at Osan. “I tell everybody the same thing: I just know that God put me in the right place and the right time.”  [Stars & Stripes]

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