Three newly-minted Marine Security Guards were honored on Thursday morning for stopping two suspects from stabbing another person with a knife at a Virginia Chick-fil-A, a Corps spokesman said.

Cpl. John Darby, Cpl. Bradley Feldkamp, and Lance Cpl. Nicholas Dural received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal at a ceremony held at the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group’s headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, Gunnery Sgt. Matthew J. Bragg, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group,

All three Marines had completed their training to become Marine Security Guards on March 9 at Marine Corps Base Quantico and were waiting for visas and flights to their posts at the time of the April 1 incident, which unfolded at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in North Stafford, Virginia, Bragg said.

[The picture of the knife with its blade snapped off is YIKES! Well done, Leathernecks! Semper Fi! ~ Beege]