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Press Release
The chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Ștefan Dănilă, visited Corporal Daniel-Gheorghe Tuică at the Military Emergency Hospital "Dr. Carol Davila", Thursday, 20 December.
The soldier’s health has a good evolution and he was transferred by air from the US Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, to the military hospital in Bucharest to continue medical treatment and recovery.
Corporal Daniel-Gheorghe Tuică was wounded in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, on Sunday, 9 December, following a fire exchange with Afghan insurgents, while he was carrying a recce mission on A1 highway, Kabul-Kandahar.
The 29 years old soldier of the 33rd "Posada" Mountain troops Battalion had participated previously in a mission in Afghanistan in 2010.
MoND Press Office