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JC & Friends: Corporal Matthew Hast

Jul-22-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

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by JC Hayward, WUSA-TV

America Supports You campaign is designed to show love and appreciation to those who put their lives on the line each day fighting on behalf of our country.

J.C. And Friends is joining this effort to support our troops in Iraq by featuring some of the men and women from the metropolitan Washington area.

We salute Corporal Matthew Hast from Hagerstown, Maryland. [...]

I'm from Hagerstown, Maryland. My job is I'm an infantry soldier on one of the striker vehicles in the striker brigade combat team. And right now I am a squad leader for one of the motor squads", says Corp. Matthew Hast.

September 11, 2001 was a fateful day when many Americans would search for answers that somehow seemed elusive. The solution for Matthew Hast was to join the Army. He was only 17 at the time but with his parents' signature he enlisted, less than one month later.

Corporal Hast is a member of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment. He's been in Mosul for nine months and ready to come home.

When asked who he left behind, Hast responds "I left behind my mom, my dad, my brother some of my friends, but most of all my family. I'd like to send to them that I lov'em, I'll be home in a couple months and that I'd love to see them", he says.

"When I get home to Hagerstown the first thing I'm going to do is take a week off and spend it in my pj's and probably not leave the house and just rest”, says Hast.


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