Justin D. LeHew (born 2 January 1970 in Columbus Grove, Ohio) is a United States Marine who served in the War on Terror.

Upon returning from South America as a lance corporal, LeHew immediately deployed to Southwest Asia with the battalion in January 1991 and participated in Operation Desert Storm.

On March 23, 2003, LeHew[5] was an assault amphibian vehicle platoon sergeant who was leading an armored column into the city of Nasiriyah when he was called upon to rescue the remaining soldiers of the ill-fated US Army 507th Maintenance Company led by Captain Troy King, who was ambushed just hours earlier.

After the Marine column rescued the soldiers, the attack continued into the streets of the city where, during a day of unrelenting and viscous house-to-house, street-to-street, close-quarters urban combat, he bolstered a defensive perimeter to repel numerous waves of Saddam Fedayeen attackers, directed tank and infantry fires, rescued or retrieved 7 more US Marines after their vehicle was destroyed by rocket-propelled grenade fire and coordinated an air medical evacuation of all wounded and dead US troops during the fight for the Southern Bridge in the city.

During this battle, LeHew was awarded the Navy Cross for heroic actions in close-quarters combat in the city as well as calmly calling in air strikes and tank/infantry fires to neutralize enemy targets in the midst of chaos.

"LeHew's Challenge" is an 8 ft high suspended log supported by two pedestals that is part of the famed 54-hour crucible event which culminates the basic training of a United States Marine.

In 2019 alone, this organization successfully located and recovered 86 missing US servicemen, in both the Pacific and European theaters of operation from World War Two and returned them to their families.