By Glenroy Sinclair, Staff ReporterA SOLDIER with Jamaican connections, who is serving with the US military in Iraq, has been shot and wounded there.
He is Reginald Grant, Jnr., 25, a son of Assistant Commissioner Reginald Grant of CIB Headquarters, Kingston.
ACP Grant is well acquainted with the dangers of armed conflict but that has not dulled the pain he is now experiencing since hearing that his eldest son was shot and seriously injured in Iraq.
The soldier was shot in the right eye during combat Sunday night.
MIGHT LOSE EYE
"It is a worst-case scenario now. I understand that he might lose the eye in order to save the other one," ACP Grant told The Gleaner yesterday, from his office at CIB Headquarters, downtown King-ston.
The United States Embassy in Kingston was unable to provide much information about the incident.
"I was shocked when I got the news. I then called the U.S. Embassy here and they gave me some telephone numbers and names of who to call, then I got in touch with my son," ACP Grant said.
NOW IN GERMANY
The soldier is now in Germany undergoing treatment and he is to go to the United States for further treatment. He was born in the United States, but spent his childhood years in Jamaica where he attended school.
"He used to attend St. Catherine High School. After high school he went back to the United States and joined the army," ACP Grant said.
Reginald Grant, Jnr., joins the list of U.S. servicemen with Jamaican connections who have either been killed or injured while on assignment in Iraq.
