First amputee corpsman to deploy to combat.
July 17, 2011 by Da-Chief
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SAN DIEGO — The explosion of a bomb buried in a road in Ramadi, Iraq, killed the Marine driving the Humvee, fatally wounded the vehiclecommander and ripped through the body of then-Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class (FMF) Daniel Jacobs. Jacobs had landed in Iraq just weeks after joining the infantry unit — India Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th […]
