<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c1b44af9-5131-4392-8bfa-04fb680b5070/127252D0-0E9F-4953-8650-248FEEBA0BE3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.defenselink.mil//heroes/50heroes/Heroes_NY3.html" href="http://www.defenselink.mil//heroes/50heroes/Heroes_NY3.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.defenselink.mil</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.defenselink.mil//heroes/50heroes/Heroes_NY3.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.defenselink.mil/img/8FE60383-D188-459A-AEC6-15561442B8B4" alt="Marine Corps. Capt. Brian R. Chontosh" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.defenselink.mil//heroes/50heroes/Heroes_NY3.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="left" class="TimesR14-b">Marine Corps. Capt. Brian R. Chontosh</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.defenselink.mil//heroes/50heroes/Heroes_NY3.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="left" class="TimesR14">Then-1st Lt. Chontosh was leading his platoon north toward Ad Diwaniyah in southern Iraq on March 25, 2003. Insurgents set up an ambush, and with Coalition tanks blocking the road ahead, Chontosh’s group got caught directly in the line of fire. Chontosh had his driver position their vehicle to cut off an enemy machine gun firing on the platoon. He then ordered his driver to position the vehicle into the enemy trench. He exited the vehicle to begin clearing the trench. Chontosh single handedly cleared more than 200 meters of an enemy trench, using his own weapons and discarded enemy weapons, killing more than 20 insurgents and disabling others. Chontosh was awarded the Navy Cross Medal on March 12, 2004.</TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/127252D0-0E9F-4953-8650-248FEEBA0BE3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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