The Army honored Staff Sgt. Melissa Taylor and 1st Sgt. Joshua Arnold for their response to the mass shooting at Fort Stewart. The soldiers spoke with CNN’s Pamela Brown about helping some of the wounded and what they witnessed.

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Soldiers stationed at Fort Stewart have recounted their experiences during an active shooting incident inside their facility. According to their accounts, they responded quickly after hearing gunshots, with some immediately providing medical assistance to injured colleagues while the situation was still ongoing.

One soldier described focusing on rendering aid and coordinating with medics to treat wounds and prepare the injured for transport. Another soldier noted that while they were helping the wounded, other personnel acted to subdue the shooter in a different part of the building. The soldiers emphasized the rapid and coordinated response among those present during the emergency.

Soldiers who helped injured during active shooting speak out

So it started off as a regular duty day. I was just checking my email and I heard first sergeant Arnold yelling that there were gunshots in the building. I do work on the opposite end of the building from where the incident happened so I just stuck my head out into the hallway to see what was going on. I saw a cloud of smoke and he started yelling about there being smoke and I saw the soldier laying on the ground in the hallway and I asked if he was injured and he first sergeant Arnold said he had been shot so I immediately sprinted over to the soldier and got down on my knees and started rendering aid to the soldier. So you were rendering aid to the soldier as there was an active shooting, right Melissa? Yes. Wow. Joshua, bring us in. You're the one who was alerting Melissa to what was going on. Tell us what you were going through. I was sitting in my conference room with one of my officers and we were doing some paperwork and I heard a gunshot. I thought I heard a gunshot. I looked at him and said that sounds like a gunshot. That sounds like a gunshot and I stood up and seemed like a flash went past my conference room and I came out in the hallway and I kind of went towards that direction and and lost the direction of which that person was running in. I looked back from where they were at or where they came from and I saw the smoke and I yelled down and I said was that a gunshot? Was that a gunshot? And no one answered so I ran down. I seen the shell case on the ground. I said that's a gunshot and seen the first person injured and and immediately yelled that somebody had been shot and and sat the injured soldier on the ground and provided aid until Staff Sergeant Taylor came up and took over and the soldier on the ground said someone else had been shot. Someone else had been shot and I got up and went to that person's office and and found that person and immediately started providing aid to that person as well. So all of this is taking place. You're providing aid while the suspect is engaged in a shooting, right? How quickly did all of this end? Because we know some of the soldiers there jumped into action and stopped all of this from happening. What can you tell us about that, Melissa? So everything kind of goes by quick but at the same time it's in slow motion when stuff like this happens. So I wasn't paying attention to the time. I was just focused in on what I was doing, applying aid to the soldier that needed it. We got his clothes to expose the wound and I you know medic came over and helped me. We applied the treatment that was needed and we got the soldier packaged up and taken outside to be put in the ambulance. So I was honed in and focused on helping that soldier more than paying attention to everything else around me. What about you, Joshua? Did you see your fellow soldiers jump into action? They jumped into action and actually jumped on the shooter to stop him from firing. No, we did not witness that action being taking place. It happened in a different part of the facility.

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