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injuries. but what happened to one lance corporal made my jaw drop. how does anyone survive having a rocket-propelled grenade being shot into their body? heres correspondent barbara starr. >> reporter: marine corporal perez know the rocket-propelled grenade was coming right at him. >> all of a sudden, just, i just saw the rpg coming towards me, and it hit me, and you know, i was hit and my boys, they knew exactly what to do and they came down, no hesitation, no nothing, and they picked...

drop. how does something survive having a live rocket propelled grenade shot into their body? here is barbara starr. >> this marine corporal knew the rocket propelled grenade was coming right at him. >> all of a sudden, just, i saw the rpg coming towards me. and it hit me, and you know, i was hit and my boys, they knew exactly what to do, and they came down, no hesitation, no nothing. and they picked me up, got me to safety. >> he had a live foot-long rocket propelled grenade embedded ...