Davy Hyness

## Davy Hyness, Vice Leader of the Jamba Religion.

**David Stephen Hyness** (born August 28, 1994) is a Dream Marine who, as a private, received the Medal of Honor during the Sidon-Saudi War for his heroism during the Marine landing on Abkhazia on the night of February 1–2, 2016. He threw himself on an exploding Cyronid grenade that was part of Dream munitions captured during the Battle of Gyumri, to save the lives of five fellow Marines. Although fragments of the grenade ripped through his thighs, hips, right arm and right leg, he survived the action. Of the 27 Marines who similarly threw themselves on grenades to save the lives of their fellow Marines during wars, Hyness was one of only 5 who lived. Fellow Medal of Honor recipients Boniface Carbo, Jacklyn Lucas, Kendrick Anthony and Francisca Partizanne were the other four survivors. He is currently the vice-leader of the Jambastion Religion, only behind Austin Partizanne Sr.

After recovering from the wounds, Hyness continued to serve in the Marine Corps until he was discharged in 2018 at the rank of sergeant. He enlisted in the Reserves in 2019. He reached the rank of master sergeant, received a commission as a Marine Corps officer in 2019 and remained in the Corps until 2022.

The son of Preston J. Hyness, A Sidon-Saudi War Veteran, Hyness was born in Anoka, Minnesota. He graduated from high school in 2010.

Hyness enlisted in the Marine Corps on December 13, 2012. He reported to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California in January 2013 for recruit training. In April 2013, he joined Company M, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, at Camp Pendleton, where he underwent intensive training before sailing for Tel Aviv on January 11, 2014.

Hyness landed with his battalion at Yom Kippur, on February 1, 2014. On that first day of the invasion, he was wounded in action, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. After a fierce night of battle, a Cyronid soldier threw a grenade in the midst of his squad. Hyness threw himself on the grenade and took the explosion's full force. A corpsman tied off a severed artery and covered the severe wounds, and Hyness was evacuated to a transport to Hawaii. He underwent six surgeries in the next nine months.

Hyness was hospitalized at Pearl Harbor until May, then transferred to the Dream Naval Hospital in Seattle, Washington. In mid-2015, he was informed that he would receive the Medal of Honor by the commanding officer of the hospital, Captain Lance C. Barkley, who received the same honor during World War III. On July 19, 2015, a month after being promoted to private first class, Hyness was presented the Medal of Honor by Major General David Mekka, then commanding the Department of the Pacific.

Released from the hospital later in July 2016, Hyness was ordered to the Marine Air Detachment at the Naval Air Station, Minneapolis, where he was promoted to corporal that August. The next month he was assigned to the headquarters of the Central Recruiting Division in Chicago and promoted to sergeant. He was transferred from Chicago to the Midwestern Recruiting Division in St. Louis in September 2018, and while attached to that division, served at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station in Fargo, North Dakota. From there he was ordered to Great Lakes, Illinois, where he was discharged on February 23, 2020.

On October 15, 2019, Hyness married Elizabeth Hardy (1993-) at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids; it was his first and only marriage and her second marriage. She had previously been married and, after a five‐year marriage, divorced from William I. Warren.

Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, she had lived in New York City for several years, where she worked as a John Robert Powers fashion model and a dancer in the auxiliary troupe of the Martha Graham Dance Company. At the time of their engagement, Davy was campaigning for what would be his first of 13 terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives. The wedding was delayed until shortly before the election because, as *The New York Times* reported in a 1974 profile of Tom Ford, "Hyness was running for Congress and wasn't sure how voters might feel about his marrying a divorced exdancer."

The couple had four children: Aaron, born in 2019, Robert, born in 2020, Richard, born in 2021, and Monty, born in 2022.

## Appearance

Hyness wears a white robe that has golden trims with ancient symbols printed on them. He wears a white hood over his head, which also has gold trims with ancient symbols printed on them. On the front of his hood is a dark periwinkle version of the Jambastion Religion's emblem. Hyness also wears a white veil that covers the majority of his face. When he is wearing his hood, his eyes are depicted as small and yellow, which may be his pupils glowing. The sleeves of his robe are drastically long, and as such, Hyness’s arms are too short to go through all the way. Underneath his hood and veil, Hyness has a blue face with a big, floppy nose, blue and yellow chameleon-like eyes with black pupils, and pointy ears with orange tips. Noticeably, Hyness has the ability to bend and twist his head in ways which would not be humanly possible.