The Bronx Times & Bronx.com: Bronx Marine's Miraculous Recovery

Bronx Marine's Miraculous Recovery
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Peter Milosheff on 06/10/2012 09:20:00
 
Cpl. Perez was fighting the Taliban in January, 2012 outside the town of Musa
Qala when he was struck by the 14-inch, football-shaped grenade.
Perez leg went numb and he collapsed upon impact.
His fellow Marines came to the rescue, pulling him off the battlefield and to
safety where a helicopter evacuated him to a nearby clinic.
Risking their own lives, a medic, Navy trauma surgeon James Gennari, and
explosives expert in Afghanistan pulled the live RPG out of the Marine's body by
hand.
From there, Perez was taken to a military hospital in Germany.
Doctors worried Perez could lose his leg, but he is making a surprising recovery
and walking with a cane.
Perez grew up in the area of E. 164th Street and Gerard Avenue in Bronx.
The CNN footage follows: