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To: w1n1

A Fort Drum soldier was shot through the chest with a .50 cal round back in the late 1980s or early ‘90s. He was doing maintenance on a mounted weapon and didn’t follow procedures.

I know he lived long enough to be airlifted to a Syracuse hospital (about 80 miles). I don’t know his long-term outcome, but my recollection is he survived.


4 posted on 03/27/2017 7:13:42 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Steely Tom

Although most people think it’s worse getting shot at close range than from afar, physics says otherwise. The bullet accelerates at a rate until it reaches max velocity. At close range it is not at max velocity. Now maybe it will hurt you worse at close range, like a 22 slug bouncing around inside you versus it going straight through you, but the answer IMO is where it hits you is the most important part!


12 posted on 03/27/2017 8:02:59 AM PDT by gr8eman (People too dumb to understand what the word "country" means will never have one!)
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