MOSUL, Iraq - He walked slowly into the small room just off the entrance to the small hospital at Camp Diamondback, his face and left hand covered with burns, his lower right arm buried beneath a mound of gauze.
"Hey, sir, how you doin'?" Lt. Matthew Delk said in his deep southern accent as Maj. Dwaine Drummond, executive officer of the Maine Army National Guard's 133rd Engineer Battalion, stepped forward to greet him.
"I'm fine," Drummond said softly, taking Delk's left hand. "How are you?"
"I'm doin' great," Delk said. "I'm doin' great."
He isn't, of course. It will be months before Delk fully recovers from the injuries he suffered Tuesday when the Humvee in which he and two Maine soldiers were riding was blown 75 feet sideways by a roadside bomb in western Mosul.
133rd embraces hero as one of its own
[Link to Full Article]by Bill Nemitz
MOSUL, Iraq - He walked slowly into the small room just off the entrance to the small hospital at Camp Diamondback, his face and left hand covered with burns, his lower right arm buried beneath a mound of gauze.
"Hey, sir, how you doin'?" Lt. Matthew Delk said in his deep southern accent as Maj. Dwaine Drummond, executive officer of the Maine Army National Guard's 133rd Engineer Battalion, stepped forward to greet him.
