The shot was a lucky hit for the enemy. It shattered C.’s femur, severed nerves and cut veins. One piece of luck for C. was that the round, as it mushroomed and tore through his leg, didn’t sever his femoral artery. Still, it was bleeding heavily. “I couldn’t put a tourniquet on myself because every time I tried to apply it, it moved my leg and the femur would twist, and I’d scream,” he remembers. “So I traded the tourniquet for not screaming. I lay there and sobbed until two of my guys came over. These are guys, by the way, who had to finish the immediate gunfight they were in, and then cover open ground, in a firefight, to get to me. Epic.” One of the guys took a tourniquet off his equipment and put it on C. Every twist of the tourniquet further mashed his femur, and drove its broken shards into other nooks of his flesh and nerves. He was writhing. He quickly started bleeding through his bandages. So the guys called in the helos and started moving C. to the LZ for extraction.
No mention of any related casualties in this Politico article — none that I noticed skimming the article.
"C" couldn't have said it any better, he and his team are to be commended for their actions.
This is a man that the clueless SECDEF Hagel should definitely talk to and thank him for his service.
Fk Bunghole.
I ever meet him I will turn my back to him.
I hope bergdahl faces a trial.....this admin is just the worst..
Never happened, Hagel said so. And he should know, 0bama made him SecDef. No one got killed looking for the des.. Bergdahl.
Too bad Bergdahl didn’t end up collateral damage.
Active Duty/Bergdahl ping.
Thanks for the ping, xzins. Puts the cost of Bergdahl’s desertion in perspective. I read a 2-star General was to review Bergdahl’s situation AND the army was to review the circumstances around the six who died during searches for him.