The Army may soon have a huge problem on its hands if this keeps happening…
An American soldier who was seriously wounded during a bomb attack in Iraq on Nov. 13 re-enlisted just hours after the ambush, telling Army officers he still had a job to do, the Army reported Monday.
Spc. Christopher Hoyt, an infantryman from California with the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, based out of Fort Lewis, Wash., was injured after an improvised explosive device — or IED — exploded near him while he was out on a foot patrol near Zaganiyah, Iraq.
“He said he wasn’t finished,” Hoyt’s battalion commander Lt. Col. Mark Landes said.
Landes conducted the re-enlistment himself. “He said, ‘I still have a job to do.’ ”
Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell, the brigade’s top non-commissioned officer, who was also present during Hoyt’s re-enlistment at Anaconda, said Hoyt was the epitome of what a soldier should be.
“It takes a person of very strong character to go through an incident where another soldier five feet away was killed, and he was severally wounded, and still say ‘I believe in what we are doing and I want to stay on the team. I want to support the United States Army and my country,’ ” Troxell said.
I’ve asked before, but where does America find these guys. You are a real hero SPC Hoyt, thank you for your continued service to this nation; I’m proud of you. Sgt Hook out.
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