SAN ANTONIO – When her little brother, Amadeaus Foster, was pulled from the bottom of the pool at a downtown motel last weekend, Airman Basic Shelby Goff knew exactly what she had to do.
Goff, who had just graduated from basic training at Lackland, began to immediately perform CPR.
"The training I received in basic just automatically kicked in," Goff said.
Her younger sister pulled the child from the pool after he fell from a float, bumped his head on the side of the pool and slipped beneath the surface.
"He wasn't breathing," said Goff. "He didn't have a heartbeat. His skin was pale and his lips were blue."
She said little Amadeaus didn't respond to CPR at first.
"I proceeded doing the CPR for the second time," Goff recalled. "He took a breath in and he stopped again, but the third time I did it, he started breathing on his own."
The child was rushed by EMS to University Hospital. He has since been released and is back with the family in Grand Junction, Colo.
The family was in San Antonio to attend Goff's graduation from basic training.
Goff said she's heard no mention of any awards associated with her heroism.
But that doesn't matter, she said.
"The fact is that I do have an award and it is my little brother's life," she said. "He's my best friend in the world so I was really happy that I could have been there."
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