Three Marines honored for disarming teen with knife in Virginia Chick-fil-A

Three Marines were honored Thursday for disarming a teen in a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Virginia who pulled a knife in a fight with another teen.  

Cpls. John Darby and Bradley Feldkamp and Lance Cpl. Nicholas Dural received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal at a ceremony at the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group’s headquarters in Quantico, Virginia.

The local sheriff's office credits the Marines for stopping the fight between the teenagers.

Darby, Feldkamp and Dural completed their training last month at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico.

The Marines say their intervention started when the teenagers knocked into a woman during the scuffle and one of the three went to see whether she was OK.

"That’s when I turned around, they were still tussling, and one of the smaller ones pulled out a knife," said Dural said, according to a military news outlet TaskandPurpose.com. "I saw the knife and I just reacted."

The Marines were able to disarm the teen before the police arrived.

"I want to be that Marine," Dural said. "I want to be a calm that people see. I want to be that strong person that anybody can trust. I was like that for my sisters when I grew up with them and I would love to do that for the rest of the world."