Immigrants of the Day: Capt. Ademola Fabayo (Nigeria) and Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez (Mexico)
CNN reports on the award of the Nay Cross to our two Immigrants of the Day. Capt. Ademola Fabayo (Nigeria) and Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez (Mexico) “are both immigrants to the United States, both Marines and, most important of all, both heroes of a rare order. On Friday, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus presented both men with the Navy Cross during a ceremony at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The Navy Cross is the second-highest award for valor in the military, surpassed only by the Medal of Honor.”
Fabayo was born in Nigeria but considers himself a New Yorker. Rodriguez-Chavez is a native of Acuna, Mexico.
The two Marines survived a bloody ambush in eastern Afghanistan in September 2009. They were given the nation’s second highest award for valor in a ceremony at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, near Quantico, Va. They were members of Marine Embedded Training Team 2-8, which was pinned down on Sept. 8, 2009, in an early-morning ambush in Ganjgal, a village near the Pakistan border in violent Kunar province. For details, click here.
KJ