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Podcast: Forged In The Fires Podcast with Fireman Rob
Episode: Episode 224 - Forged in the Fires Guest - Rick Yarosh
Description: In June of 2004, Rick entered the US Army. Four months later he graduated from Basic and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky as a U. S. Calvary Scout.  After graduation he was sent to Fort Hood, Texas for further training in operating and gunning a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. In December of 2005 Rick was deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom to Baghdad, Iraq.
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On September 1, 2006, Rick was part of a routine military mission in the Abu Ghraib region of Iraq. Â While on the mission, the Bradley was hit with an IED and the vehicle was e...