Portal:United States Merchant Marine/Selected biography/2

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O’Brien was a merchant seaman from 1944 to 1946
O’Brien was a merchant seaman from 1944 to 1946

George H. O’Brien, Jr. (10 September 1926 – 11 March 2005) was a United States Marine Corps officer who was awarded the Medal of Honor, the United States's highest military decoration, for conspicuous gallantry as a second lieutenant for spearheading the capture of an enemy-held hill while wounded by enemy fire during the Korean War. He was decorated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower during a White House ceremony on 27 October 1953, exactly one year to the day after the heroic action for which he was cited.

From December 1944 until May 1946, he was a seaman in the United States Merchant Marine. He then entered Texas Technological College where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology in May 1950.