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  • Marines dedicated to training Iraqi soldiers amidst insurgent attacks

    07/05/2006 5:53:51 PM PDT · by SandRat · 1 replies · 236+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Sgt. Roe F. Seigle
    HADITHA, Iraq (July 4, 2006) -- Lance Cpl. Douglas Tetreault carries a spent round fired from an AK-47 assault rifle, which was surgically removed from his thigh last month after he was shot during a firefight with insurgents in Haditha, Iraq. The 21-year-old native of Adams, Mass., wears a nine-inch scar on his thigh every time he steps “outside the wire” to go on combined patrols with Iraqi soldiers in Haditha – a city of 30,000 nestled along the Euphrates River northwest of Baghdad. “It felt like someone had kicked me in the leg at first,” said Tetreault, after a...