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U.S. Army specialist and military police officer A site has been created for my son to keep all his friends and family updated about David’s condition. We want to thank you for all your prayers and thoughts during this hard time.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
North state soldier wounded in attack
by Jim Schultz, reporter - Contact: 225-8223 or at jschultz@redding.com
 A former Shasta County man was severely injured last week when his U.S. Army patrol came under enemy rocket fire in Iraq, his father said Wednesday. David Mayer, 30, a U.S. Army specialist and military police officer, was one of three soldiers badly injured in the attack, said his father, Glen Mayer of Anderson. His son, who lived here for about a year after graduation from a high school in Brea, lost his left leg at the knee, as well as three toes on his right foot and two fingers on his left hand, Glen Mayer said in a telephone interview from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. But his son is in good spirits, despite the circumstances, he said. "He's a soldier," he said.
Glen Mayer, 65, is a past American Legion District 2 commander who established the American Legion Post No. 214 in Palo Cedro about two years ago. He is a U.S. Army veteran who fought in the Vietnam War. He said his son enlisted in the Army 2004 and was serving his third tour of duty in Iraq.
David Mayer was the top gunner on a Humvee with four other soldiers when they were attacked Friday while they were on their way to Baghdad, his father said. Glen Mayer said it appears one of the other injured soldiers will lose both legs, while the third is still hospitalized in Germany and is too unstable to be transported stateside. The rocket attack blew his son into a fourth soldier, who was not hurt because David Mayer shielded him from the blast, Glen Mayer said. He said he did not learn of his son's injury until Sunday because he was out of town at the D.E.C. meeting
David Mayer arrived at Walter Reed from Germany on Tuesday, but it's still too early to tell how long he will be there, his father said. But his son has hopes of remaining in the Army, he said. "We don't know where he's going from here, but he wants to stay in," Glen Mayer said.
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