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Update: Injured Sryker Soldier

Jan- 3-2010 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT

The Miami Herald profiles Sgt. Robert Samuel of the 5/2 SBCT as he recovers from injuries at Walter Reed.

Army Sgt. Robert Samuel knew he had lost much of his leg almost as soon as the bomb went off beneath his armored combat vehicle. Bloodied and dazed, he asked his buddies to grab what was left as they yanked him out of the wrecked Stryker.

One just shook his head.

``The medic said he didn't think I'd make it,'' Samuel, 29, a soft-spoken Miami native, said of the injuries he sustained during the attack in November in the desert outside Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. ``He figured I'd lost too much blood.''


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