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Michael Burghardt
Allegiance USMC
Rank Gunnery Sergeant
Awards Bronze Star
Purple Heart

Gunnery Sergeant Michael Burghardt is an explosive ordinance disposal technician in the United States Marine Corps.

GySgt Burghardt came to prominence in 2005 when the Omaha World-Herald published a photograph of him in Ramadi, Iraq making a defiant gesture.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Injured Marine defies attackers", Omaha World-Herald, September 24, 2005. Retrieved on 2006-12-13.

[edit] See also

Snopes.com entry

Article in Stars & Stripes

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