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Episode 224 - Forged in the Fires Guest - Rick Yarosh
In June of 2004, Rick entered the US Army. Four months later he graduated from Basic and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky as a U. S. Calvary Scout. After graduation he was sent to Fort Hood, Texas for further training in operating and gunning a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. In December of 2005 Rick was deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom to Baghdad, Iraq.
On September 1, 2006, Rick was part of a routine military mission in the Abu Ghraib region of Iraq. While on the mission, the Bradley was hit with an IED and the vehicle was engulfed in flames. Within 40 hours after…
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