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Article: Contracting officer experiences frontline action in Iraq.(Airman's World)(personal narrative of Ed Ruckwardt)
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- April 1, 2005
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SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- First Lt. Ed Ruckwardt was in his office, wrapping up some contracts he'd worked the previous few days. It was typical of the lieutenant's duties--nothing extravagant or special about the contracts.
But the quietness of the day was interrupted by a loud explosion that made the ground rumble under his feet and his trailer shake. A mortar round landed about 30 yards from his trailer, sending pieces of shrapnel flying like shards of glass through the air.
"There was a Marine already administering first aid to one of the injured individuals," said the lieutenant, deployed from 82nd Contracting Squadron with the 1st Marine ...