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2/25 SBCT Captain Returns to Duty

Jan-15-2010 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

The Honolulu Advertiser describes the ordeal of an officer with the 2/25 SBCT.

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS — The commander of the Army's Stryker Brigade in Hawai'i ticked off the injuries that Capt. Ray O'Donnell suffered in a 2007 Humvee rollover in Afghanistan. Quantcast

The list included facial fractures, traumatic brain injury, a crushed pelvis, spinal damage, a fractured hip, dislocated femur and severe nerve damage. [...]

O'Donnell, 29, stood at attention yesterday as the litany of broken bones was read off — then bounded up onto a makeshift stage as if none of that had ever happened, as he took command of about 290 soldiers that make up Headquarters and Headquarters Company.


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