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A Blur of Hospitals—October 2009-September 30, 2010McKenna remembered little of what happened immediately after he was hit by the RPG ricochet in the wadi in Waziristan. But at the beginning of last August, just a little over three months ago, Big O had visited him at the VA Hospital in Martinez, after McKenna was beginning to regain large chunks of his memory.
Big O helped fill in some of the blanks. The team had managed to successfully get McKenna to the Toyota pickup, after he was hit in the forehead by the grenade fragment. Baryal drove them all back wildly but safely to the landing zone, thankfully encountering no delaying roadblocks on the way, barely making it in time to be picked up at 0645 by the Black Hawk. Big O had said it was touch and go until they got McKenna to the fi
