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Stryker receives Purple Heart

4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division on December 30th, 2010

During his deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 2007-08, Sgt. Randy P. French was on a route clearance mission removing concertina wire from a road using an MV-4 mine clearing robot.  He was operating out of the Stryker commander's hatch when a deeply buried improvised explosive device exploded. The explosion