The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Lieutenant (MC) George E. Metz, United States Navy, for heroic conduct on the morning of 15 November 1960 while serving with the Medical Department, U.S. Naval Air Station, Cubi Point, Philippine Islands. Witnessing the crash of a Marine Corps helicopter on the slope of Mount Mariveles, Bataan Province, Lieutenant Metz raced to the burning wreckage and succeeded in extricating a trapped and severely burned Navy medical corpsman moments before the aircraft exploded and became engulfed in flames.