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livvy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 01:16 PM
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Spc. Earns DSC For Heroism During Ambush
Spc. Earns DSC For Heroism During Ambush


Spc. Erik Oropeza, 22, will be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on Feb. 13 at Fort Irwin, Calif.


By Matthew Cox - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Feb 7, 2009 8:32:41 EST

Spc. Erik Oropeza doesn’t remember hearing a thing when the 13 155mm howitzer rounds exploded beneath his Stryker.

“I remember seeing a white light and then it went dark,” said Oropeza, who had been driving his Stryker on a dirt road 10 kilometers north of Taji, Iraq.

The soldier from 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment regained consciousness a few minutes later and climbed out of his blown-open hatch.

The sharp crack of enemy automatic weapons fire snapped him out of his daze.

“I could hear the bullets whizzing by; I pretty much jumped from my driver hatch to the back right hatch of the Stryker” and ducked inside,” he recalled.

Oropeza’s Stryker had been drawn into a carefully planned ambush. Just a few minutes before, his vehicle and another Stryker from B Company were in a firefight with an enemy position on Main Supply Route Tampa.

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Lithos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 01:28 PM
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1. A very heroic man
Well deserved recognition.

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