How a Unique Nerve Graft Saved a Marine Hero's Arm
Published March 13, 2017
On his first reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan outside the wire, Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Cole was on the way back to his forward operating base when he began taking rapid enemy gunfire. Cole and a few others from his unit, Echo company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, were hit. During his first treatment in theater, Cole, a machine gunner, learned what no one wants to hear: the bullets had blown away parts of his bicep and tricep in his left arm, completely severing his ulnar nerve.
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