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Podcast: Urban Valor: the podcast
Episode: Mortar Mishap Kills Seven Marines During Night Fire Training
Description: This week’s Urban Valor episode features Marine veteran, Roy Mcquaig. Roy grew up in South Georgia and passed on a full-ride golf scholarship to join the Marines. His town thought it was so crazy the local news station wrote a story on it. Roy enlisted into the infantry as a rifleman and served two tours to Afghanistan and one tour to Kuwait, all during his first enlistment. He experienced a traumatizing training incident in which a mortar mishap left 7 Marines dead and 8 more injured. One of the Marines died holding Roy’s hand. Roy leaves...