Texan craved front-line duty

[Rose Siding]

Spc. Taylor Burk...
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His death was shattering for the soldiers in his battalion.

"We've got people who made it their mission not to leave this ," said Burk's squad leader, Sgt. Andrew Wintz, 40, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. "We've got people who went home on leave and never came back. He took a bullet, and he came back.

"I want people to know that he was proud of what he did. He was proud of being a combat medic."

Burk was good at it, too. On April 4, during one of his first missions in Baghdad with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, which is part of the 1st Cavalry Division, a soldier in his Humvee was shot in the face and thigh during an ambush....

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[Voltaire99]

1. No one should crave combat

Would that he had craved life, instead.

[TahitiNut]

2. As a combat medic, I'd say he came closer than most.

I'd have a real tough time faulting a medic.