The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Technical Sergeant Richard H. Pringle (MCSN: 353740), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while attached to Marine Tactical Air Control Squadron TWO, Marine Air Control Group TWO, FIRST Marine Aircraft Wing and serving with an experimental radar bombing team, in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 26 October 1951. While leading a twilight security patrol through an area where many uncharted mines and trip grenades were located, outside the barbed wire perimeter defense of the team, Technical Sergeant Pringle heard the sound of a grenade detonating and spotted a puff of smoke arising from the ground. Quickly pushing away the nearest man, he unhesitatingly flung himself toward the smoking missile and, with his steel helmet in his outstretched hands, covered the grenade a moment before it exploded, blowing the helmet several hundred feet and almost completely demolishing it. By his quick thinking, courageous initiative and gallant efforts in behalf of others in the face of great personal risk, Technical Sergeant Pringle was instrumental in preventing serious wounds to other members of the patrol, thereby upholding the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.