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...Saturday. McGowan, who turned 40 on Sept. 21, was injured June 26 in Afghanistan when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device. McGowan served in the Swainsboro-based 810th Engineer Company of the Georgia Army National Guard. At right...
...While he was serving his third tour of duty in Iraq about three years ago, Gittens' vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. "His passenger was injured," said Gittens' wife, Sharon, but he said he was OK. Gittens returned to...
...Afghanistan. Wallace lost his right leg from the knee down and his left foot when the Hummer he was driving hit an improvised explosive device. "That's what the VFW was set up for, to take care of our men and women that take care of us," said...
...exercise is a mock ambush during a patrol, which could include taking sniper fire or being the target of an improvised explosive device. "They've got to know how to react to battle drills," yrd said. Many of the soldiers who graduate from...
...vehicle while on a night patrol. A week later, Lt. Rivette is on patrol with his Humvee section when an IED (improvised explosive device) explodes between his vehicle and the vehicle in front of him. Shrapnel cracks his front windshield but no...
...do amazing things." A former sergeant in the U.S. Army, Thompson lost the use of her legs following an improvised explosive device attack in 2008 while serving in the Middle East. She moved to Augusta more than a year ago with her four children...
...communications equipment. He was headed back to Camp Victory when one of the vehicles in his convoy struck an improvised explosive device. "The driver died," he said. After the explosion, he and other soldiers set up a perimeter and secured...
...on a counterintelligence mission looking for improvised explosive devices. "I'm a multiservice veteran," he said...The vehicle in which he was riding hit an improvised explosive device. Although he was wounded in the explosion...
...Coulter in Iraq in 2003. Coulter was the first Signal officer to die in Iraq when his vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device on Nov. 17, 2003. The wing named in his honor is in the building in which all Signal Corps warrant officers...
...Thomson High School in 2003, was critically injured when the Army Humvee he was driving was blown up by an improvised explosive device by Taliban forces near Khwost on June 9. Wallace, who was deployed to the war zone from Fort Bragg, N...