Sentence examples for members wounded from inspiring English sources
The three soldiers were killed, and two other service members wounded, in the region of Lower Dir, which is close to the tribal areas.
Armed with pads, pencils and cameras, they had two hours to carry out their mission: making drawings of service members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A guard at the hospital – the name of which is a reference to the day in 1962 when Yemen's last monarch was deposed – was killed in one of the strikes, and 10 staff members wounded.
But this week Mr. Loosen got a new device that he, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon hope will make a major difference for not just hundreds of service members wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan, but also thousands of older veterans who have lost legs to combat or diseases like diabetes.
Some 20 percent of service members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have suffered blows to the face, neck or head, and the number of brain injuries has nearly tripled in the past decade, to more than 30,000 from 11,000.
From the tour, and from disclosures in Washington on Friday, a new picture emerged of how it was possible for the attackers to sneak up on one of the Navy's newest and most sophisticated warships and detonate an explosion that, in addition to killing 17 crew members, wounded 39 others and did extensive damage.
A third American service member wounded in Afghanistan died on Friday back home.
"I heard an explosion, and I saw my right hand stained with blood," said Khalef Abdullah al-Jowli, a 35-year-old Awakening Council member wounded by flying shrapnel.
Two suspected gang members were wounded when a rival gang member got out of a car and began shooting at them as they walked down a Santa Ana, Calif., street Saturday night.
In the firefight, the second officer and the 11 clan members were killed, and about 45 Dagmush members were wounded, including several women who were shot in the knees by Hamas forces, relatives said.
Six other Awakening members were wounded.
