Dead Armadillos Official Veterans Day Post -- I Met a Hero Last Night, by Maj. Mark Rasnake, 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq:

He was commanding a Bradley fighting vehicle that was struck with a roadside bomb, catching fire. The loading ramp jammed, trapping eight inside. The crew was forced to escape through a much smaller hatch in the top of the vehicle. All but one made it out. The medic was left behind, apparently unable to get out. Without concern for his own life, my hero went back in to the burning vehicle to retrieve his friend. Six of his buddies came to us with severe burns. He came to us with burns over most of his body, the most severely injured of the group.

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