A veteran from Orange County says, despite losing his eye during a Russian attack, he does not regret volunteering as a combat medic in Ukraine. “We get ambushed. We started getting hit on both sides of the vehicle with machine gun fire," explained Giovanni Roman. Roman was an infantry sergeant in the Marines, and corpsman in the Navy but this unit he volunteered for was clearing a trench in Eastern Ukraine. Roman was able to vividly recount the experience that led to the loss of his eye.