Loria thought he'd done it all, and was getting ready to collect $4,486 in final Army pay. But "clearing Fort Hood," as the troops say, takes paperwork. Months later, he was still recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and just beginning to adjust to life without a hand, when he was released back to Fort Hood.ĪFTER SEVERAL MORE MONTHS, the Army is releasing Loria. When the second bomb exploded, it tore Loria's left hand and forearm off, split his femur in two and shot shrapnel through the left side of his body. A bomb had just ripped off another soldier's arm. It happened in February when his team from the 588th Battalion's Bravo Company was going to help evacuate an area in Baqubah, a town 40 miles north of Baghdad. Like many soldiers wounded in Iraq, Loria's injuries were caused by a roadside bombing. Loria's expected discharge yesterday came a day after the public got a rare view of disgruntled soldiers in Kuwait peppering Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with questions about their lack of adequate armor in Iraq. "It's coming up on Christmas and I have no way of getting home." but it's looking bleak," Loria said by telephone from Fort Hood yesterday. "There's people in my unit right now – one of my team leaders over in Iraq with me, is doing everything he can to help me.
Robert Loria owes it close to $2,000, and confiscated his last paycheck. Now this wounded soldier is being discharged from his company in Fort Hood, Texas, without enough gas money to get home. Times – He lost his arm serving his country in Iraq. Robert Loria is stuck at Fort Hood, Texas He lost an arm in Iraq the Army wants money
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