Cpl. David Qualls (left), a motor transport assistant operations chief with Marine Wing Support Squadron 471, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve, Lt. Col. Vincent Dawson (center), the executive officer of Marine Aircraft Group 41, Marine Forces Reserve, and Sgt. Maj. Christopher Thomas, the Inspector-Instructor sergeant major at 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, MARFORRES, stand at attention as Qualls’ Navy and Marine Corps Award citation is read at the 1/23 headquarters in Houston, Texas, May 20, 2017. In 2014, Qualls and other Marines helped save a man stuck inside a burning


Cpl. David Qualls (left), a motor transport assistant operations chief with Marine Wing Support Squadron 471, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve, Lt. Col. Vincent Dawson (center), the executive officer of Marine Aircraft Group 41, Marine Forces Reserve, and Sgt. Maj. Christopher Thomas, the Inspector-Instructor sergeant major at 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, MARFORRES, stand at attention as Qualls’ Navy and Marine Corps Award citation is read at the 1/23 headquarters in Houston, Texas, May 20, 2017. In 2014, Qualls and other Marines helped save a man stuck inside a burning vehicle. According to the award summary, had he not arrived when he did, the man would have surely died.


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