Thursday, March 31, 2011

U.S Marine recovering after surviving bomb blast

A U.S Marine survived an improvised explosive device blast in Afghanistan earlier this month and faces surgery in California.

Corporal Russ Moseley, a 26-year-old in the 2nd Battalion 1st Marine Division based at Camp Pendleton, California was injured in the blast on March 13, 2011 his family says.

"He was working his dog and he stepped on an IED, and it shattered everything in his (right) foot and some other spots in that leg," his father, Clint Moseley, said in a call from Naval Medical Center San Diego. "He had the choice to keep it or have it amputated, and he chose to have it taken off so he'll have more mobility."

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