An officer from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center was honored with a prestigious award this week.
As reported by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Serive, Twentynine Palms-based Chief Warrant Officer 3 Deacon Holton, the battalion gunner for 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, was recently chosen as the 2023 recipient of the Gunner Henry Lewis Hulbert Trophy for Outstanding Leadership.
The Hulbert trophy is presented in memory of Henry Lewis Hulbert, who earned the Medal of Honor as a private and was one of the first 20 Marines selected to serve as a Marine gunner.
