Staff Sgt. Lawrence Salcido Receives the Purple Heart Medal!
On Friday, February 8, 2010, our very own Staff Sgt. Lawrence Salcido received the Purple Heart Medal for wounds he received while serving in Afghanistan last year. Lawrence and two others received this well deserved medal after being wounded by improvised explosive (IE) devices.
Lawrence said he and 17 other Marines were sent on a mounted patrol to find insurgents who had attacked a convoy the previous day. “When we stopped our vehicle to use Expray and the vehicle moved that last little bit from putting it into park the IED went off,” he said.
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