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  • Courage under fire: Marines awarded after brush with death (G Co. 2nd Bn 4th Marines - Ramadi vets)

    02/04/2006 10:53:25 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 12 replies · 748+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 2/4/06 | Marylee Shrider
    The debate over America's presence in Iraq has raged since the first Marine set foot on the sand, but it's never been a question for Pfc. Jimmy Gentile. He's been there, done that and would do it again. So would Joe Hayes, the Tehachapi boy who fought side by side with Gentile in one of the fiercest battles of the war to date. The two men met after boot camp in 2001 when fate and the U.S. Marine Corps assigned both to Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. They became fast friends, training together, deploying together and ultimately almost dying...