13APR2003: Having fought with the 3rd BN 502nd Infantry all the way to Baghdad, PVT Dwayne Turner, a medic was serving on a work detail in a newly established operations center during the Battle of Baghdad. As he and his fellow Soldiers worked, the enemy attacked. At close range, enemy fighters lobbed grenades into the American position and opened fire with automatic weapons. A blast from one of the grenades wounded Turner and threw him into a nearby vehicle. Ignoring his own wounds, Turner leapt back into the fight and began searching for any wounded Soldiers. PVT Turner quickly found one of his brothers with an eye injury and moved him to makeshift casualty collection point. Rather than stay and treat the wounded, Turner handed them off to other medics and ran back into enemy fire, despite already having been wounded. As he moved out from their covered position he was hit by enemy fire that broke his right arm but continued to bring in the wounded. Now with the wounded Soldiers consolidated, Turner shifted to treatment and during this process was shot again, this time in the leg. Now with multiple shrapnel wounds and having been shot twice, Turner continued to provide care for his wounded brothers until another medic sat him down to treat the wounds. Turner would survive the deployment and be awarded the Silver Star for treating at least 16 American Soldiers in the midst of the deadly Baghdad fight.

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