California Marines receive Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism during Las Vegas mass shooting...

"I'm not going to lie. I was scared," 26-year-old Sgt. Michael Vura said in a recent Marine Corps video. "Seeing that initial reaction from everyone else around you, running away from it ... I recall looking at Sgt. Cox and he was like, 'Yo, we got to get up there and help.' That was the first thing that he said."

Vura and Sgt. Austin Cox, also 26, received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal during an awards ceremony at Camp Pendleton, California, on April 29 for braving a barrage of gunfire to save victims of the music festival shooting in Las Vegas, Oct. 1, 2017.