The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Soldier’s Medal to Sergeant Gilbert Trujillo (ASN: RA-54018066), United States Army, for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy as a of member of the Replacement Company, Special Warfare Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 13 September 1961 Sergeant Trujillo was participating in a parachute drop and had commenced a normal descent when he noticed that the parachute of another soldier participating in the exercise had accidentally malfunctioned while un-opening and did not become properly inflated. Realizing the immediate danger involved, Sergeant Trujillo quickly reached out, grabbed the partially inflated parachute and held onto it. This action enabled the soldier to descend safely on Sergeant Trujillo’s parachute to a point of approximately two to three hundred feet from the ground where the man’s reserve parachute was finally deployed and both made a safe landing. The prompt action, presence of mind, and unselfish courage displayed by Sergeant Trujillo in this sudden emergency prevented serious injury or death to his fellow soldier, and reflect the utmost credit on himself in the military service.