At least two sailors and four Marines, along with Japanese citizens, rescued two boys from a deadly Yokosuka car crash New Year's Eve.
The troops were the first to arrive on the scene after a car plummeted from the 5th story of a parking garage outside Yokosuka Naval Base, killing three of the occupants and injuring two children, ages 11 and 16, according to a Stars & Stripes Report. Three other passengers were killed.
Navy officials confirmed that four Marines from a fast-response team and a sailor assigned to the destroyer McCampbell assisted in the rescue. Another sailor, identified by Stripes as First Class Petty Officer Garrett Osborne, assisted in the rescue as well.
"Out of the corner of my eye I see this big object coming out of a building, and sure enough it's an SUV flying out backward from this parking garage," Osborne, assigned to the Navy Munitions Command, said. "At this point, it's all going in slow motion, and I don't believe my eyes. It's almost something you see in a movie."
The service members assisted in freeing the boys and flipping the overturned car over but allowed local emergency services to render medical aid.
