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Sgt. Nick Popaditch
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Nick " "Gunny Pop" " Popaditch is best known as " "The Cigar Marine" " after an AP photograph was taken just before the Firdos Square statue of Saddam Hussein was destroyed on April 9, 2003 and put on the front pages of newspapers around the world. Nick is the author of Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery, a candid memoir about his service as a tank commander in Iraq, his horrific wounding in the first battle of Fallujah (where he was hit in the head by a rocket-propelled grenade), and his long and difficult recovery. Nick's latest release is The Ultimate Marine Recruit Training Guidebook: A Drill Instructor's Strategies and Tactics for Success.
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