Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone will win the Airman’s Medal, the Air Force’s most prestigious non-combat award, for attacking an extremist armed with an AK-47 on a high-speed European train. Stone was slashed in the arm and received a black eye during the altercation, so he may possibly receive a Purple Heart as well.

Stone was nominated for the medal by his unit. The Airman’s Medal and (potentially)  Purple Heart will go nicely with Stone’s French Legion of Honour medal, which he was awarded by the President of France himself.

On Aug. 21, Stone and National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, American student Anthony Sadler and British businessman Chris Norman attacked a gunman who boarded a Paris-bound train with an AK-47, a handgun, a box cutter and nine magazines of ammunition. While train employees fled and locked passengers in the train car with the attacker, the four passengers leapt into action.

“Had it not been for this heroic quartet, I’m quite sure that we’d be discussing a bloodbath” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said. “They subdued the gunman and saved lives.”

“Alek just hit me on the shoulder and said, ‘Let’s go.’ And I ran down, tackled him,” Stone said. “We hit the ground. Alek came up and grabbed the gun out of his hand while I put him in a choke hold.”

In the ensuing brawl, Stone was severely cut with a box cutter and another passenger shot in the neck. Stone saved that passenger’s life by using his fingers to stop the bleeding until paramedics arrived on the scene.