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Posted by Chief Strobel (Member # 2078) on :
 
Thought I would share with you the pictures of my HMMWV after we were ambushed on 12 Aug 2003. Two weeks in the hospital and an F-BOD later, I'm very much alive and thankful for it.

For those of you who aren't familiar with my incident, the vehicle, which I was riding in, came under attack in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. There were three roadside bombs that were detonated as we passed by.


http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4151426&a=30880604&f=0
 

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Posted by 67&02 (Member # 1570) on :
 
I am thankful you are with us!
 

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Posted by blkragss02 (Member # 1801) on :
 
Thank you for your service to the US, Chief
 

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Posted by JohnS (Member # 1073) on :
 
Knowing what you've gone through makes our everyday problems seem very small.

Glad you came out of it okay.

[ 25. September 2003, 08:01 AM: Message edited by: JohnS ]
 

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Posted by 2002Z4CSS (Member # 1393) on :
 
Wow! Glad you survived that attack.
 

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Posted by poSSum (Member # 119) on :
 
Glad you came out of it okay.
 

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Posted by KenC (Member # 189) on :
 
glad u made it broh. thats nasty!

thank God for Hummers too.... we had jeeps in Nam......and they were a death trap.
 

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Posted by Kevin V 2002 SS (Member # 1025) on :
 
Glad you are OK. A friend of mine was recently hurt from shrapnel in the arm when a mortar hit just outside his hotel room in Iraq. He is OK though.
 

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Posted by Macky (Member # 1427) on :
 
You were lucky. We are having a memorial service here on Monday for one of my former soldiers who was killed in Iraq a couple of weeks ago. She just graduated from DLI two months ago. She was an outstanding soldier.
 

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Posted by 35TH ED/ed (Member # 1709) on :
 
Glad you are here to post with us.Nicer to be talking with you instead of through some one else
 

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Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 88) on :
 
Hoochy Mamma, glad you're all right. Could have
been much worse. Thank you and all that served
for what you've sacrificed.
 

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Posted by DanA_F99_1977 (Member # 118) on :
 
Happy you are here to tell us about it.
God bless you.
 

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Posted by Big A (Member # 1761) on :
 
Cheif, Glad you back in the world. I hope the rest of your patrol was as lucky as you were.

Remember, if your feeling down just hop in your TH-SS and forget the world!

I was lucky, I spent 20 years in the USAF and though I was deployed a couple of times I was never realy in harms way.
 

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