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Soldier Update: Christopher Crank

Aug-24-2008 » Filed Under: 4/2 SBCT

The Fairfield Echo has a profile of CPL Christopher Crank, who was injured while serving with the 4/2 SBCT in Iraq. Excerpt:

Christopher Crank saw the charge that detonated the bomb before he felt its effects.

Driving an eight-wheel Stryker armored vehicle through Iraq's Diyala Province on June 6, 2007, the Fairfield Twp. resident and then-Army PFC used night vision equipment to detect the activation of an improvised explosive device 10 feet ahead a split second before it detonated.

"It went from a dark, black road to all of sudden light-up-the-sky kind of bright," he said. "It was a perfect square."


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