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Show JEREMIAH IGGARD pril 14, 2004 compound. And as we were sitting there from the intelligence compound an Iraqi ldier shot a rocket propelled grenade at us which blew up in the face of two of our Marines. Both of them came out alive receiving, for the most part, minor wounds. And from that time on, a firefight ensued. We fought for several hours. And towards the end of the day the fighting had died down quite a bit, and we had taken a few casualties. Most of them were minor. We had a few Marines that had experienced what we call shell shock; the experience of actual combat was too great for them, and kind of knocked them off their feet mentally for awhile. And, so, we lost one or two to that. But, overall, nobody died in that fight either. We had one Marine in a different part of the section Bagdad was patrolling, and he took a 50 caliber sniper round to the head. We had all been wearing our equipment, and we had on Kevlar helmets. And this sniper round had penetrated the helmet and penetrated into his skull and his brain. And it was radioed in that he had been killed. When they took him out of there, they took him to a hospital, and they looked at him. They realized that he wasn't dead, and that he needed to have an operation; that the bullet needed to be removed. And they didn't have a-they needed a neurosurgeon to perform this surgery, but there were none on hand. There was, however, a reporter that was there. He was reporting on the medical aspect of the war. And he did happen to be, I guess, a world renown neurosurgeon. And he volunteered to operate on this Marine. And, as such, this Marine today is alive. He has lost only a little bit of his motor skills, but other than that he is doing very well. 15 |
