Risky RPG Removal from Marine's Leg

UPDATE Marine talks about what happened that day.

You have an RPG in your leg

Risky RPG Removal from Marine's Leg
Posted 2 days ago by Member 26835147 Lt. Cmdr. Gennari talks to CNN's Brooke Baldwin about his risky role in the removal of a live rocket-propelled grenade embedded in a Marine's leg.



UPDATE

Pulling A Live Rocket From A Wounded Marine Is All Part Of The Job For This Navy Sailor
Robert Johnson
Jun. 2, 2012

It's part of the job for American medical teams to care for civilians caught up in the bloody mess of Afghanistan fighting, so when a call came over the radio January 12, to help an injured three-year-old girl, an Army medical team rushed to save her.

The child had a bullet lodged in her back and had been doused by shrapnel, but when the medical unit arrived they found an even more pressing problem — a 22-year-old Marine Lance Corporal named Winder Perez had been hit as well — and the rocket propelled grenade (RPG) that had taken him down lay unexploded in his leg.
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