William "Kyle" Carpenter and Lance Cpl ... and Carpenter threw himself between the grenade and his fellow Marine. Eufrazio "received a shrapnel injury to the head from the grenade," while ...

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At 25 years old, Kyle Carpenter, a former Marine infantryman, is just the second living Marine to receive the nation’s highest award for valor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan. Carpenter in ...

The Marine Corps Times first reported that retired U.S. Marine Corporal William Kyle Carpenter will receive the Medal of Honor in a ceremony to be held later this year. In 12 years of fighting ...

Michael Kroll, Carpenter's platoon sergeant, told Marine Corps Times that even though nobody knew for sure what happened, "our feeling has always been that Kyle shielded Nick from that blast." ...

Retired Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter is set to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for bravery, on June 19. Carpenter will be the third Marine to be awarded the medal since the ...

Medal of Honor recipient Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter paid a visit to the Pentagon today to visit Sgt. Maj. Ronald L. Green, the highest ranking enlisted Marine and a senior advisor to the ...

Marines got a bit excited when the Marine Corps Times broke the news that Cpl. Kyle Carpenter is slated to receive the Medal of Honor for heroic actions in Afghanistan. In 2010, Carpenter was a 21 ...

It was impressive enough when Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter, who survived jumping on an enemy grenade, ran the Marine Corps Marathon last year. But that was last year. Carpenter ...

Two decades later, one has to wonder if it was a sign that retired Marine Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter, born in Jackson on Oct. 17, 1989, somehow already knew at least part of his life's path ...

Kyle Carpenter jumped on a grenade to save his friend in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama reaches out to retired Marine Cpl. William "Kyle" Carpenter, after awarding him the Medal of Honor for ...