Corporal Carlos Gomez-Perez - Someone You Should Know

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John R. sends the must read of the day - Marine Carlos Gomez-Perez, in the first battle of Fallujah, wounded, bleeding, surrounded by his wounded team, decides that it would be better to die fighting than as a prisoner of Al Qaeda...

Camp Pendleton Marine receives Silver Star
 On day he receives medal, former Marine speaks of fallen comrade.

By MICHAEL CORONADO
The Orange County Register

CAMP PENDLETON – The armor-piercing round ripped through the right shoulder of then-Lance Cpl. Carlos Gomez-Perez, leaving a fist-sized hole.

Maybe it was the adrenaline, but the stocky, young Marine felt no pain during the April 2004 firefight.

One floor below him, as Iraqi insurgents fired relentlessly, Gomez-Perez could hear his fellow Marines shouting.

The El Cajon resident propped up his M-16 and pulled the trigger despite his bloodied chest, his thick, wide frame keeping his shoulder intact. He lobbed a grenade with his good arm.

Beside him, Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin, 21, wounded by gunfire, was losing his fight for life. Below him, the shouting continued.

"All I heard was screaming and screaming," Gomez-Perez said.

Gomez-Perez decided he would die before he would be taken prisoner and made a bold move to lead his fellow Marines, several wounded, against their attackers...

Be sure to read the rest of the story.

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Corporal Carlos Gomez-Perez - Someone You Should Know

John R. sends the must read of the day - Marine Carlos Gomez-Perez, in the first battle of Fallujah, wounded, bleeding, surrounded by his wounded team, decides that it would be better to die fighting than as a prisoner of Al Qaeda...

Camp Pendleton Marine receives Silver Star
 On day he receives medal, former Marine speaks of fallen comrade.

By MICHAEL CORONADO
The Orange County Register

CAMP PENDLETON – The armor-piercing round ripped through the right shoulder of then-Lance Cpl. Carlos Gomez-Perez, leaving a fist-sized hole.

Maybe it was the adrenaline, but the stocky, young Marine felt no pain during the April 2004 firefight.

One floor below him, as Iraqi insurgents fired relentlessly, Gomez-Perez could hear his fellow Marines shouting.

The El Cajon resident propped up his M-16 and pulled the trigger despite his bloodied chest, his thick, wide frame keeping his shoulder intact. He lobbed a grenade with his good arm.

Beside him, Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin, 21, wounded by gunfire, was losing his fight for life. Below him, the shouting continued.

"All I heard was screaming and screaming," Gomez-Perez said.

Gomez-Perez decided he would die before he would be taken prisoner and made a bold move to lead his fellow Marines, several wounded, against their attackers...

Be sure to read the rest of the story.

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