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Kevin McCaughtry
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E-5 Petty Officer 2nd Class, Navy
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Operation Iraqi Freedom
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From civilian to Navy: CBIRF corpsman continues to defend homeland
US Marine Corps News
11/19/2008 By Sgt. Leslie Palmer , Chemical/Biological Incident Response Force
NAVY ANNEX STUMP NECK, Md. ? Good things can come out of a tragedy.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin McCaughtry, Headquarters and Service Company, Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, II Marine Expeditionary Force, is a hospital corpsman here passing on an experience unlike that of what most people have experienced.
?It was surreal. It was like a movie set. Any responder is going to have to deal with a few house fires in his career, but standing next to a 14-story pile of metal is enough to push anyone into a state of disbelief,? McCaughtry, who was a civilian emergency medical technician Sept. 11, 2001.
Yet, it was no movie set.
"It was a mess," McCaughtry said. "Pulverized concrete coated every surface, the air had a sharp quality to it, and it was hard to breath," he added. &
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