Article posted: 1/29/2013 7:34 PM

Soldier with new arms determined to be independent

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Retired Infantryman Brendan M. Marrocco attends a news conference Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq.

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Brendan Marrocco insisted on rolling his own wheelchair into a news conference using his new transplanted arms. Then he brushed his hair to one side. Such simple tasks would go unnoticed in most patients. But for Marrocco, who lost all four limbs while serving in Iraq, these little actions demonstrate how far he's come after a double-arm transplant.