(CNN) The three US Navy sailors who were killed in the Pensacola Naval Air Station shooting were honored at Saturday's Army-Navy football game after they gave their lives to protect others during the attack.

The three sailors -- Airman Mohammed Sameh Haitham, 19; Airman Apprentice Cameron Scott Walters, 21; and Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23 -- were killed earlier this month when a gunman opened fire at the naval base in Pensacola, Florida. All three ran toward the shooter to protect others, said Capt. Tim Kinsella, the commanding officer of Naval Air Station Pensacola.

At the football game, Watson's shipmates from 10th Company wore red, white and blue ribbons pinned to their lapels, the United States Naval Academy said in a statement posted to Facebook

The defensive co-captain also wore a special memorial patch, with the date of the shooting stitched atop it. Some of the leadership and midshipmen wore the Naval Aviation Schools Command patches straight from the flight suits of Watson's Pensacola classmates, the statement read.

US Navy sailors killed in base shooting will be honored at Army-Navy football game.

This isn't the only way the three sailors have been honored since the shooting. On Tuesday, the Navy posthumously awarded the men Wings of Gold -- an emblem given to naval aircrewmen upon completion of training.

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