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Gunnery Sgt. Nick "Pop" Popaditch spends
time at 1st Tank Battalion while he is on convalescent leave.
Popaditch, a tank commander who deployed with Charlie Co.,
lost his right eye in a rocket propelled grenade attack
on April 7, in Fallujah, Iraq. A 15 year Corps veteran,
Popaditch served in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom
before volunteering to redeploy for OIF 2. Photo by: Sgt
Jennie Haskamp |
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Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch,a Hammond, Ind., native
with 1st Tank Battalion, congratulates his son, Nicholas,
after a baseball game May 8. Popaditch, who lost his right
eye in a rocket propelled grenade attack in Fallujah, Iraq
on April 7, 2004, said being home for little league season
is an unexpected treat. Photo by: Sgt. Jennie Haskamp |
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Gunnery Sgt. Nick "Pop" Popaditch, his
son Nicholas and his wife, April, head to their car after
a baseball game May 8. Popaditch, who lost his right eye
after a rocket propelled grenade blew up in his face in
Fallujah, Iraq on April 7, said being home to watch his
son's first little league season is a real treat. Despite
his injuries, which include total hearing loss in his right
ear and the loss of his sense of smell, Popaditch is adamant
about returning to full duty and serving with his Marines.
Photo by: Sgt. Jennie Haskamp |
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Navy Corpsman Jerrod Corhey, 23, from Farmington,
New Mexico, looks at the shrapnel wound on the arm of
Marine Cpl. Ryan Chambers, 26, from San Luis Obisbo, Calif.,
who is a tank gunner, after a rocket propelled grenade
hit the tank he was in, background, while they were battling
insurgents in the northwest side of Fallujah, Iraq on
Wednesday, April 7, 2004. Chambers' wound was just a small
cut. Two other Marines on the tank were also injured by
the explosion. Both were expected to be alright.
Here is Corporal Chambers'
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