4 Pa. Guardsmen receive Purple Heart

Two were injured in an attack on a convoy and two in a mortar attack.
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Four members of the 107th Field Artillery Unit of the Pennsylvania National Guard based here have been awarded Purple Hearts for injuries suffered in fighting in Iraq.
The unit is serving as a military police unit in and around the city of Mosul.
Spc. Dale Lunn of Slippery Rock, Spc. Dane Morningstar of Greenville, and Spc. Jonathan Brown and Staff Sgt. Theron Robbins of Jamestown were awarded the Purple Heart Medal in separate ceremonies in Iraq held by Brig. Gen. Carter "Cory" Ham, commander of Task Force Olympia, which includes the 107th.
What happened
Lunn and Morningstar suffered hearing loss from perforated and ruptured eardrums while serving as a gunner and driver, respectively, in one of the Army's M1114 "up-armored" humvees.
Both soldiers were injured when insurgents using rocket-propelled grenades ambushed the convoy they were escorting May 21.
"The amount of damage an up-armored humvee can sustain and still protect the occupants is a testament to good old American engineering," said Lt. Col. Hillary Baxter, Task Force Olympia provost marshal, who was also wounded in the attack.
Brown and Robbins suffered shrapnel wounds when their forward operating base came under enemy mortar attack in the early afternoon hours of June 10.
All the soldiers were treated at the 67th Combat Support Hospital; three of them were returned to full duty shortly thereafter. One of them required additional care and was to be sent to Walter Reed Army Hospital via Germany for treatment.
With the recent awards, the Purple Heart count for soldiers of the unit's Company A has risen to six in the four months they have been stationed in the Iraqi theater of operations. The medal, the military's oldest, is awarded only to soldiers wounded in action by hostile forces.