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E-mail StoryTehachapi soldier injured in Iraq is back in the Army
| Friday, May 23 2008 6:34 PM
Last Updated: Friday, May 23 2008 6:34 PM
A Tehachapi native who was wounded in Iraq returned to the Army on Friday, family said.
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Matthew McCool
U.S. Army Spc. Matt McCool left for Fort Lewis and will join a “Warriors Transition Unit” to help him in recovering, according to an e-mail by his father, Brian Wilcox.
McCool suffered multiple skull fractures and a concussion from a bomb in Iraq in late March.
McCool was treated at Walter Reed National Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and at the Palo Alto Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center. He later returned home.
McCool is expected to go to Fort Polk in Louisiana until June of 2009 and then be stationed in Fort Irwin in California near Barstow, Wilcox said.