Urban Valor: the podcast
Urban Valor: the podcast
Urban Valor
Marine Remembers Blast That Left His Friend Dismembered
49 minutes Posted Jul 22, 2025 at 3:00 pm.
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This week on Urban Valor, we sat down with Marine veteran Ernesto Menjivar. A man who watched his brother lose both legs to an IED right in front of him. Ernesto was 19 years old when he first hit the ground in Afghanistan, assigned to one of the most IED-infested regions in Helmand Province. The firefights came fast. The first one he was ever in, RPGs were flying over his head, and the next minute they were sweeping for pressure plates in the dirt, praying one of them wouldn’t go off. But t...