Wounded Iraq Vet Sets Sights on Business

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on August 8, 2008 11:56 AM | | Comments (0) |

A tattoo on his right forearm that reads "0331" indicates former Marine Cpl. Jeff Hopson was a machine gunner.

The Hawthorne resident wears four silver rings in his left ear to show the number of years he served in uniform.

"Four years in the Marine Corps as a gunner and I made it, and I'm alive," Hopson said with satisfaction.

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Biz Waves is a one-stop Web hub for business news and content from the South Bay region of Los Angeles County and beyond.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

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