Gunnery Sgt. Benjamin Frazier saw a man about to jump off a bridge. He soon realized the man was a fellow Marine
In May 2022, Marine Gunnery Sgt. Benjamin Frazier was driving across a bridge in Virginia when he saw a young man on the bridge’s ledge. He also saw that a woman was trying to talk to the man, while looking around for someone to help.
As so often happens when Marines see an emergency, Frazier instinctively moved toward the danger.
“It was just one of those sixth-sense moments,” said Frazier, an intelligence instructor at Marine Corps Detachment Dam Neck, Virginia.
According to a Marine Corps news story Frazier pulled his vehicle over and called 911. Then he made his way to the ledge of the bridge, where the man had pushed away the woman several times.
Frazier reached out and grabbed the suicidal man’s left arm and then used his body weight to keep the man from jumping.
