WASHINGTON — U.S. Army Spc. Robert “Bronco Bob” Andrzejczak, a 2004 graduate of Lower Cape May Regional High School, was promoted to the rank of sergeant Sept. 30.
He was seriously wounded Jan. 7 when an insurgent’s grenade hit his truck during a routine patrol in Bayji, Iraq. He lost his left leg up to the lower femur.
A Purple Heart ceremony was held for Andrzejczak Feb. 5 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Lower Township welcomed Andrzejczak home April 25 with a ceremony during which he threw out the first pitch at Carl T. Mitnick School to open the township’s Little League season.
Sgt. Andrzejczak will continue his service commitment and retire in February 2010.
He continues to stay at the medical center and returns to his hometown, North Cape May, on weekends.
Sgt. Andrzejczak is currently visiting his Division of Schofield Barracks in Oahu, Hawaii.
The 25th Infantry, which Andrzejczak is a member, is slated to pull out of Iraq in November, his father Joe told the Herald.
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