Marine Helps Rescue Dunwoody Couple From Washington Mountain

A group of U.S. Marines are certainly heroes to one Dunwoody couple.

The couple, Norman Petty, 77, and his wife, Barbara, were hiking earlier this month in North Cascades National Park in Washington state. According to the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, Capt. Nick Anthony, a Marine recruiting management officer in Seattle, and some friends were also hiking in the area when they came upon the exhausted Petty.

Anthony and his fellow climbers led the couple to safety by carrying Petty more than three miles using an impromptu support system.

(Image: Capt. Nick Anthony)

Anthony's fellow hikers -- Colin Ayers (right), Melanie Stam (center) and Ben Stilin -- assisted in the couple's rescue.

Anthony is from Norman, OK, while Ayers, from Spokane, WA, is a University of Washington chemical engineering student. Mitchell, from Seattle, is a content project manager at Microsoft. Stam, from Atlanta, is a Microsoft data analyst. Stilin, from Seattle, is a ski instructor at Husky Winter Sports.

(L-R: Stam, Ayers and Ben Stilin. Image: Capt. Nick Anthony)

Image: Capt. Nick Anthony. Credit Staff Sgt. Reece Lodder