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CNN.com – Marine survives 9 bombs – Jan 29, 2005

This guy is either really lucky, or really unlucky!

Good read, and good to know even in what seem to be unbearable conditions, Marines manage to keep a sense of humor.

ASKAN, Iraq (AP) — The first time Lance Cpl. Tony Stevens was bombed in Iraq, a car packed with 155 mm shells exploded next to his Humvee just as a device containing five more shells detonated beneath it.

By bomb No. 9, the former baseball minor league shortstop had become a good luck-bad luck icon and the awe of his 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment patrolling the so-called “triangle of death” south of Baghdad.