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DEVGRU Operator Reveals Massive IED Attack That Killed Teammate and Injured Entire Assault Team
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#313 Eric Frohardt - DEVGRU Gold Squadron Sniper and Assaulter
"The whole building blew up. I literally thought our breacher threw some top secret grenade in there because the whole building blew up. The overpressure of being next to the window blew me whatever, 30 feet away from the building. All of that assault team had been crushed. Louie died. Our dog handler had double compound femur fracture. Two thigh bones sticking out. We had another guy who had like a full pelvic fracture and then a couple of broken arms and a broken leg."
Eric Froehart described a house-borne IED in Iraq that killed teammate Louis Safran and catastrophically wounded his entire assault team two nights after losing Mike Koch and Nate Hardy. Froehart survived only because he stopped to engage targets through a window instead of entering the doorway where the massive explosion occurred. The blast sent him 30 feet and gave him a severe concussion while his teammates suffered crushing injuries including compound fractures and pelvic breaks.
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