Cpt. Ian Townsend

545th MP Company, 1st Cavalry Division

Fort Hood, Texas  - Now deployed in Iraq

.The Purple Heart

PFC Mathew Jones

On 1 June 2004 PFC Mathew Jones, a gunner in the 545th MP company, earned a Purple Heart doing his job. He was in the first vehicle of three on his way to go help the Iraqi Police at their station for the day. Not 10 minutes outside of our base a large improved explosive device (homemade bomb) went off near his truck. He was wounded on the right arm with shrapnel. Our combat medic helped keep him conscious and alive as she treated his wounds and got him evacuated to the combat support hospital. He is on his way home to Texas to have some more surgery done to his arm to help repair some minor nerve damage. He will hold his one month old son for the first time in the next few days. Please say a prayer for him and his family.

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