Maj. Gen. Ronald Bailey, the commanding general of 1st Marine Division, presents an award to 1st Lt. Scott A. Whipple, a platoon commander with Hotel Company, 3rd Assault Amphibious Battalion, and wife Meera Whipple, July 18. Whipple received the award for saving an officer when he swam more than 400 meters in rough water from the shoreline to pull a drowning officer to safety.