WEBVTT 00:04.194 --> 00:05.960 - So, it was on the way back down. 00:05.960 --> 00:09.194 I was a little bit ahead, I was just stopped at a restroom. 00:09.194 --> 00:11.791 And a woman who was hiking ran down, 00:11.791 --> 00:14.510 and she was screaming, asking for a doctor. 00:14.510 --> 00:16.641 And when she said that, I asked her what was wrong. 00:16.641 --> 00:18.993 She was saying that a local girl was having a seizure, 00:18.993 --> 00:22.073 with her father just like standing over her, freaking out. 00:22.073 --> 00:24.304 And there was a phone number on the wall 00:24.304 --> 00:26.043 with Mountain Emergency. 00:26.043 --> 00:28.236 So I just, I called the number thinking that it would help. 00:28.236 --> 00:32.283 And they only spoke Japanese, so I didn't have any way 00:32.283 --> 00:33.309 to actually communicate with them. 00:33.309 --> 00:35.790 So I ran up to where Corporal Goodman was 00:35.790 --> 00:37.818 with the girl and her father. 00:37.818 --> 00:38.958 And I handed the father the phone 00:38.958 --> 00:41.144 and he was able to talk to them. 00:41.144 --> 00:42.845 And whenever they were done talking, 00:42.845 --> 00:47.012 he basically figured out that they weren't able to... 00:49.628 --> 00:51.392 They weren't able to get a rescue vehicle 00:51.392 --> 00:52.933 up to where they were. 00:52.933 --> 00:55.438 So he asked us to try and help carry her down. 00:55.438 --> 00:56.691 And we kinda just looked at each other, 00:56.691 --> 00:58.412 looked at our sticks. 00:58.412 --> 01:00.674 We just learned how to do it, so we kinda just made 01:00.674 --> 01:04.841 the stretcher out of our shirts and the hiking sticks. 01:05.823 --> 01:09.240 And she was still responsive at the time. 01:09.354 --> 01:11.766 She was awake, just struggling to breathe. 01:11.766 --> 01:15.738 And we started moving, Corporal Ehms ran off ahead 01:15.738 --> 01:18.031 and about halfway through we realized that she had gone 01:18.031 --> 01:21.250 completely limp and was no longer awake at all. 01:21.250 --> 01:23.423 And we just took her the rest of the way down the mountain 01:23.423 --> 01:25.090 as fast as possible, 01:25.605 --> 01:27.995 with the terrain that we were on. 01:27.995 --> 01:31.403 And got her to medical, or to at least the Mountain Police 01:31.403 --> 01:35.236 and then kinda just handed her off from there. 01:37.003 --> 01:39.770 So a couple of us were on jungle warfare training 01:39.770 --> 01:41.392 and that was one of the things we went over, 01:41.392 --> 01:43.980 was how to make a stretcher out of your blouse and your 01:43.980 --> 01:47.063 and some sort of stick that you find. 01:50.722 --> 01:53.147 I don't know if it was the Marine Corp itself that did that, 01:53.147 --> 01:55.609 but there wasn't really another option for us. 01:55.609 --> 01:58.452 It was, we saw someone that needed help 01:58.452 --> 02:00.866 and we were gonna do whatever we could to do, 02:00.866 --> 02:03.283 whatever we could do to help. 02:03.395 --> 02:04.979 The training, however, did like, 02:04.979 --> 02:06.982 I wouldn't have known how to make a stretcher 02:06.982 --> 02:08.291 out of my shirts and sticks 02:08.291 --> 02:12.124 if it weren't for the jungle warfare training. 02:15.097 --> 02:17.318 I actually downplayed it a lot for my family. 02:17.318 --> 02:19.898 I wasn't gonna tell them at first. 02:19.898 --> 02:21.371 What I ended up telling them was there was a girl 02:21.371 --> 02:24.531 that was in trouble and we helped her down the mountain. 02:24.531 --> 02:27.455 So, they were excited, they thought it was awesome 02:27.455 --> 02:29.988 that we helped, but they didn't know the full extent 02:29.988 --> 02:31.738 of what had happened. 02:32.251 --> 02:35.931 So now that the news has taken it, my mom is going crazy 02:35.931 --> 02:38.443 and calling me, and my brother's telling me 02:38.443 --> 02:41.234 if I meet Tom Brady then he wants me to mention him. 02:41.234 --> 02:43.151 So they're enjoying it. 02:48.222 --> 02:51.543 We weren't really, we didn't think about it at all kinda. 02:51.543 --> 02:55.079 When we were doing it, it was just a normal thing to help, 02:55.079 --> 02:58.675 so it's definitely a surreal experience knowing 02:58.675 --> 03:00.403 that the Marine Corp acknowledged the fact 03:00.403 --> 03:03.533 that it did happen and then rewarded us for it. 03:03.533 --> 03:06.700 It's all still kinda surreal, I dunno. 03:10.515 --> 03:13.275 The first night when we didn't know if she was okay or not 03:13.275 --> 03:15.497 was sort of unsettling cause we just handed her off 03:15.497 --> 03:17.360 to the medical personnel. 03:17.360 --> 03:20.389 And she was unconscious at the time so we had no idea. 03:20.389 --> 03:22.261 But once they had messaged us and let us know 03:22.261 --> 03:24.817 that she was okay and got released from the hospital, 03:24.817 --> 03:26.484 it felt really good. 03:26.912 --> 03:31.079 I was happy to know that we did whatever we could to help. 03:35.354 --> 03:37.123 So one of the bystanders actually added 03:37.123 --> 03:38.932 Corporal Goodman on Facebook, and he messaged him 03:38.932 --> 03:41.827 just thanking us for our kindness and our bravery. 03:41.827 --> 03:44.074 And he said thank you to the friendship of the Marine Corp. 03:44.074 --> 03:46.241 And it was kinda touching. 03:50.590 --> 03:51.623 I don't really know, actually. 03:51.623 --> 03:54.527 Maybe the, I think that there are a lot of people 03:54.527 --> 03:55.944 that would have done the same thing. 03:55.944 --> 03:57.982 There were a lot of Marines on that just, 03:57.982 --> 04:00.344 good people, I'm sure, on the mountain that day. 04:00.344 --> 04:03.344 And it kinda just happened to be us, 04:03.766 --> 04:04.813 the ones there to help her, 04:04.813 --> 04:06.151 we were just in the right place at the right time.