Shaffer
04-28-03, 09:13 AM
The rocket-propelled grenade tossed Gunnery Sgt. Gus Covarrubias across an Iraqi courtyard like a piece of debris and slammed him into the ground so hard he was knocked unconscious.
The blast threw Cpl. Wayde Broberg against a wall, and it propelled bits of shrapnel into Lance Cpl. Jimy Guerralemus' face.
The April 8 incident set in motion what would become a furious battle outside Iraq's Ministry of Defense in eastern Baghdad, in an area known as Saddam City.
Covarrubias, a Las Vegan and a 20-year veteran of the Marine Corps, said it was not vindictiveness that compelled him hours later to hunt down and kill the Iraqi Special Republican Guard member who launched the grenade.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Apr-25-Fri-2003/news/21188509.html
The blast threw Cpl. Wayde Broberg against a wall, and it propelled bits of shrapnel into Lance Cpl. Jimy Guerralemus' face.
The April 8 incident set in motion what would become a furious battle outside Iraq's Ministry of Defense in eastern Baghdad, in an area known as Saddam City.
Covarrubias, a Las Vegan and a 20-year veteran of the Marine Corps, said it was not vindictiveness that compelled him hours later to hunt down and kill the Iraqi Special Republican Guard member who launched the grenade.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Apr-25-Fri-2003/news/21188509.html