Thursday, November 25, 2004
Hurricane Battalion Featured in US News and World Report
This time the focus is on North Miami's Charlie company.
I hadn't realized Lora was the other guy in that Humvee that night. I always liked him, though.
My little part in that action was peripheral...behind the scenes. I was in the Aid Station when Adams and Recio were brought in. You can read about it here.
These guys never stop amazing, inspiring, and humbling me.
Splash, out
Jason
Recio had just put a dip of chewing tobacco in his mouth when there was suddenly a blistering white flash. It looked like thousands of tiny meteors were flying around the humvee. No one was sure whether it was a rocket-propelled grenade, a bomb, or a land mine. There was silence, then bullets spattered the humvee. "Anyone hit?" Mateo yelled. Baar was sprawled on the steering wheel. Mayorga was screaming, holding his left hand minus several fingers. "Doc got hit! Doc got hit!" Lora yelled. Nearby, Recio cried, "My leg! My leg! My leg!" Shrapnel had torn through his calves. Mayorga wrapped his hand in bandages, then turned to Lora, the only man uninjured, giving him step-by-step instructions on how to save Recio's life. In pain, Mayorga quipped, "Hey, Lora, I'd give you a hand, but I only have one left." Mateo remembers a salty smell and thought it was the nearby river. It turned out to be blood. It was everywhere in the humvee.
I hadn't realized Lora was the other guy in that Humvee that night. I always liked him, though.
My little part in that action was peripheral...behind the scenes. I was in the Aid Station when Adams and Recio were brought in. You can read about it here.
As with many of the wounded soldiers returning from Iraq, Adams's future is uncertain. He, too, is still on med hold, taking home about $3,500 a month--a substantial increase from the $1,600 a month he used to earn cutting lawns. Even though he's been home for more than a year, he hasn't gone through the med board process yet. But VA counselors have told Summer his disability most likely will be rated at 100 percent, for which the VA will pay him $2,239 tax free. He may get extra amounts for Summer and the boys.
As for Adams, he hopes to go to college and perhaps work with computers someday, unless he can somehow realize his fondest aspiration: "If I could and if they wanted me, I'd go back to Iraq."
These guys never stop amazing, inspiring, and humbling me.
Splash, out
Jason
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