Robins Airman Earns High Honor for Heroic Actions

WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Robins airman earns high honors for his heroism while serving in Afghanistan.

Master Sergeant Gene Jameson is a hero and it’s all because of his actions on August 20, 2011 while stationed in Afghanistan.

“We got attacked by insurgents,” Sgt. Jameson said. “It ignited one building and that building kind of spread to other buildings. It ended up being between 80 to 90 buildings, about five and half acres of fire.”

He helped firefighters put out the blaze and then came across something he didn’t expect.

“I stumbled, literally tripped over two crates of shoulder launch rockets, anti tank rockets, and grenades,” he said. “We tried to relocate them but as soon as we did…the building collapsed right on our exit, so we couldn’t get out.”

Sgt. Jameson was eventually able to get the explosives out. He saved the lives of 50 people who were battling the blaze.

“Who knows what would have happened,” Master Sergeant Mylo Gibson said. “I can speak for myself, personally being there that night, who knows how my night would have ended if he wouldn’t of done what he did.”

His fellow airmen and family members came out to the Robins Air Force Base on Thursday to watch as he earned the Bronze Star medal with valor for his heroic actions. He says he’s honored but was just doing what he had to do.

“I was sent there to do a job for that couple of hours, stumbled on some things and just did what I thin anyone would have done.”

The Bronze Star medal is the fourth highest ranked armed forces award. Sgt. Jameson has been serving in the US Air Force for 18 and half years.