At a ceremony in Parkville, Maryland, on Oct. 24, a Marine received the service’s highest medal for noncombat bravery, more than two years after he drowned in an act of heroism.
Lance Cpl. Corey Staten was just 23 years old when he died on July 4, 2018. He drowned attempting to save a fellow Marine in a river at Fort Leonard Wood Army base in Missouri, where he was training as a motor transportation operator, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
