Medal for Courage presented to the Mehic family

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic presented today the Milos Obilic Gold Medal for Courage to the family of late pilot Omer Mehic.

Slavica Mehic, the widow of Omer Mehic, was presented with the medal at the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic.

The presentation ceremony was also attended by Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic, Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) Chief of the General Staff General Ljubisa Dikovic and representatives of the MoD and SAF.

The reasons for awarding the medal to Mehic were read out by Chairman of the Decorations Commission Oliver Antic, who said that Mehic was "always prepared to take the greatest risk, and proved this in his last mission when he gave his own life".

Advisor to the President Oliver Antic read the biography of late pilot and the Decree on Decoration. On April 8, Nikolic posthumously decorated the SAF members and health care workers who were tragically killed in a fatal helicopter crash on March 13, 2015.

Upon his initiative, for extraordinary courage and self-sacrifice in rescuing lives in the extremely dangerous situation, the Milos Obilic Gold Medal for Courage was posthumously presented to pilot Major Omer Mehic, pilot Captain Milovan Dukaric, Ensign Nebojsa Dragic. Ensign Ivan Miladinovic, doctor Dzevad Ljajic, and medical technician Miroslav Veselinovic.