A 2002 Hamburg High School graduate is in a U.S. military hospital in Germany after he was injured in an explosion in Iraq over the weekend.

Cedric Pippen of Hamburg, a U. S. Marine security guard, was scheduled to undergo surgery Tuesday morning, October 4, according to his mother, Delois Pippen.

"He called me Sunday night after church," Mrs. Pippen said. "He said he was in an explosion, and that it blew a hole in his leg and he had a lot of lead in his body." Pippen told his mother that some in his unit were killed but that he did not know how many. She said she did not know where the explosion occurred, had only scant details concerning the incident.

Pippen enlisted in the Marine Corps upon his graduation from high school.