Soldier re-enlists hours after IED injury [Greatest generation]

MNF-Iraq ^ | 11/19/2007 | PAO, Camp Victory

[Tennessean4Bush]

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071119-01
November 19, 2007

Soldier re-enlists hours after IED injury (Balad)

4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division PAO
Multi-National Division – North PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq – A U.S. Soldier re-enlisted in the Army just hours after being seriously wounded in an improvised explosive attack near Zaganiyah, Iraq, Nov. 13.

Spc. Christopher Hoyt, an infantryman with 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., suffered severe lacerations to his legs and torso when an IED exploded near him while conducting a dismounted patrol. Two of his fellow Soldiers were killed in the attack.

Hoyt was rushed to the emergency room at Logistics Support Area Anaconda, where he decided to re-enlist for four more years in the Army.

“He said he wasn’t finished,” said Hoyt’s battalion commander Lt. Col. Mark Landes, who re-enlisted the Soldier. “He said, ‘I still have a job to do.’ I’ve never seen the like.”

Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell, the brigade’s top noncommissioned officer, was also on hand for Hoyt’s reenlistment.

“It takes a person of very strong character to go through an incident where another Soldier five feet away was killed and he was severally wounded and still say ‘I believe in what we are doing and I want to stay on the team. I want to support the United States Army and my country.’

“Spc. Hoyt is the epitome of what a Soldier should be,” Troxell continued. “He is a model for what all men and women should be, and that is very patriotic and very selfless.”

Hoyt, whose hometown is Clemente, Calif., is currently recovering in an Army hospital in Germany.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Unbelievable. The main reason we are winning in Iraq is that we have the finest fighting force in the history of the world.

[Tennessean4Bush]

“He said he wasn’t finished,” said Hoyt’s battalion commander Lt. Col. Mark Landes, who re-enlisted the Soldier. “He said, ‘I still have a job to do.’ I’ve never seen the like.”

They don't come any better than this ping.

[BykrBayb]

Spc. Hoyt does this nation proud!

[Gay State Conservative]

I think that this is what’s called courage.And selflessness.Wow!

[2banana]

Recruiter - Hey sign this!

[jesseam]

I don’t think it is any exaggeration to say that democrats hate people like this soldier

[Little Bill]

Brotherhood is a very strong bond, to serve our country and be proclaimed a worthy man, a warrior, is something to strive for.

[DoughtyOne]

I too believe we have the finest fighting force in the history of the world. And I believe we have had the finest fighting force in the history of the world at each stage of our nation’s history, even though we were poorly prepared for war on occasion. IMO, that’s where our weakness will always be, if there is to be one. And it won’t be the fault of our grunts. It will be the fault of those who would defeat us from within.

[ConorMacNessa]

There’s strong - and then there’s Army Strong.

[Lady Jag]

Spc. Chris Hoyt

[RDTF]

It’s amazing what fighting to keep what you have will produce, great soldiers like this. Those fighting us are fighting to change their sad state of affairs.

[stevie_d_64]

Seems to me this kind of story needs to be brought to the attention of the Olympia, Washington Port Authority, the Evergreen University shlups who were out there the last couple of weeks seriously keeping the movement of war material from going as smooth as it should have...

I doubt a lot of them would be shamed by their behavior...

But guys and gals like this (in Iraq and Afganistan, and the rest of the world) are what is going to keep this country together!

[jveritas]

Amen.

[1st-P-In-The-Pod]

I am bursting with gratitude for those who serve in our military...especially those at this time. When God chose to bless this nation He gave us generations of the brave, strong and loyal men and women who have held, and are holding, our standard high across the world.

Thank you, Lord, for each and every one. What a blessing!

[BOBTHENAILER]

“Spc. Hoyt is the epitome of what a Soldier should be,”

Ain't that God's truth!!!!!

[ARE SOLE]

Que heavos !

[Bulldawg Fan]

I have said that the reason we win wars is our secret weapon that no other country can duplicate....our young Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen. They are what keeps us free and have never failed us. God bless them all!!!

[dixiechick2000]

"The main reason we are winning in Iraq is that we have the finest fighting force in the history of the world."

Bump that!

We, also, have some of the most amazing men and women in our military.

Thank you, T4B!

[LtKerst]

I absolutely Hate Harry Ried’s GUTS, and Every Rat filth piece of Crap Democrat in Washington.

THEY ARE ALL TRAITORS.

[DocRock]

BTTT