Anthony odierno biography

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Editor's note: This column was originally published in The Record's editions of Monday, May 30, From a seat in left field, a man watched in silence and thought of a street in Baghdad. It's been six years since I met Odierno, the son of U. Army Gen. Raymond Odierno, who grew up in Rockaway and went on to become the U. It was During a break in congressional hearings one afternoon, I took a cab to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and asked if there were any injured soldiers from New Jersey.

A clerk pointed me to a room in the amputee ward, where an Army captain was trying to relearn how to pick up a coffee cup. But during a skirmish in Baghdad in August , Odierno lost most of his left arm when a rocket struck his Humvee. Six years later, Odierno has found a new life. After retiring from the Army in , he earned an M. Odierno, who graduated from West Point in May and was completing his officer training when the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked, now supervises logistics for any event not related to a Yankee baseball game.