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Photo of Captain DuVal: screenshot of ABC 7 video
Six years ago on August 24, 2014, Army Captain Carey DuVal was living a nightmare. He was then an infantry lieutenant conducting a patrol consisting of several Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles MRAPs. The vehicles were sweeping roads in their assigned area in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, looking for IEDs.
Then a Toyota pickup truck filled with explosives crashed into the side of his vehicle. The force of the explosion flipped the 15-ton MRAP on its side, blowing the door off. All five of the soldiers inside the vehicle were wounded, with DuVal the most seriously wounded of all.