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Corporal Mark N. Novello, artillery maintenance chief, Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, stands next to a M777 Lightweight Howitzer during a field exercise known as Desert Fire Exercise in the Combat Center?s training area Sept. 17. The 21-year-old Purple Heart recipient was injured in a convoy during Operation Iraqi freedom after an improvised explosive device sent a one-inch piece of shrapnel into his ankle March 2004. The injury called for a yearlong recovery, but Novello was able to bounce back with a drastically quick recovery and passing a physical fitness test. - Corporal Mark N. Novello, artillery maintenance chief, Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, stands next to a M777 Lightweight Howitzer during a field exercise known as Desert Fire Exercise in the Combat Center?s training area Sept. 17. The 21-year-old Purple Heart recipient was injured in a convoy during Operation Iraqi freedom after an improvised explosive device sent a one-inch piece of shrapnel into his ankle March 2004. The injury called for a yearlong recovery, but Novello was able to bounce back with a drastically quick recovery and passing a physical fitness test.

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