Posted on 11/16/2004 1:25:00 PM PST by mystery-ak
Edited on 11/20/2004 5:28:58 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Prayers are needed for one of our American heroes. Last week a Blackhawk was shot down by an RBG north of Baghad. The RPG went through the bottom of the aircraft through the cockpit, taking off the pilots legs, and out the top to the rotor system. The co-pilot was able to land the chopper.
The pilot is staff officer Maj Tammy Duckwrth, HHC 1st Bn 106 Avn...she has been transported to Walter Reed and is now in danger of losing an arm.
Update (11/19/04):
Tammy is in ICU and will be there for several more weeks. She is heavily sedated and periodically fights through the sedation and opens her eyes, her mother is there with her. Her color, temp and heart rate has returned to normal but is being kept on a breathing tube as she will have surgeries about every other day to repair her legs. Next week the doctors are going to begin to rebuild the bones in her arm. They are using new cutting edge equipment which has recently passed some clinical/prototypical type testing, in fact, Tammy will be the first they have used this on. She is getting a viable blood supply to her arm, but the nerve bundles have been greatly damaged.
Barring any infection, the wonderful doctors assure us she will survive. One thing that saved her life was her body armor, she had no internal injuries...amazing!
Once again, thank you all for your prayers.
Mike1sg
I can't answer each post.....so Thank you for your prayers....when Mike gets an update on her condition, I will post it.....
I certainly will, thank you very much.
Prayers going up for this family and brave officer.
There have been some awesome examples of piloting in the different companies of the 106th.
Will do, Mike....right now she is still in grave danger...she lost 40 units of blood(I hope that's reported right) before they could stablize her...
Prayers sent!
Prayers up.
May God watch over Maj Tammy Duckworth and help her through what will be a difficult recovery.
The rest of the injured crew was sent to Germany....we have heard very little on their condition other then their injuries are not life threatening.......The co-pilot did an outstanding job getting that blackhawk down...
Prayers sent for Tammy and the doctors to save her arm, and for a successful transition to being a double amputee.
Prayers for the life of the wounded pilot and prayers for her family.
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Our hero Tammy, and her family are in my prayers. God Bless them and comfort them. Is there an address where we could send cards of support to her? Thx
Amen!
Especially as the holidays are here there are going to be families really hurting as the first holiday without their loved one.
Thanks for the ping.
Prayers uplifted for the Major.
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