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USA Today offers a brief report on the same press conference we mentioned yesterday, with a few added details on how one was wounded:
All four servicemen will be sent home soon to recuperate, but they say it's hard to leave their comrades back in the field. ?I'd go back (to Iraq) in a heartbeat,? Chapman said. He was hit while on patrol in the turret of a Humvee. After an Iraqi national guardsman was shot by a sniper, Chapman scanned nearby rooftops and windows through the scope on the wire-guided missile launcher he operates. A sniper's bullet hit under Chapman's helmet, temporarily blinding him.The bullet cracked Chapman's skull, but he said doctors told him he has no brain damage. ?Everybody says I'm lucky, and I'll go with that,? he said.
Which sounds awfully similar to the story told by Kevin Sites here:
Then insurgent snipers begin firing in front of the Marines as well. One round pierces the Kevlar helmet a twenty-year old Mark 19 gunner -- in my vehicle. He is badly wounded. He's put in a canvas stretcher and six Marines run through the streets carrying him to a waiting military ambulance.
Small world, huh?
