ABC Anchor, Cameraman at German Hospital

Yahoo! News ^ | January 30, 2006 | DAVID BAUDER

[MikefromOhio]

If they fly over there on their own then I don't think the military owes them.

Chance are they don't. They are probably there on tickets bought by theri companies yet reimbursed by the military. For the most part (incidents like Nick Berg aside), Americans that are over there with the military are there because the military has asked them to be. 99% of all contractors over there which work with the military are there at the military's allowance only. Therefore, and as Eagle Eye said to you, since they have military ID (CAC) cards, they are entitled. The back of my CAC card I had while over there allowed military hospitals for critical treatment. Which is what these jouranlists are needing.

[MikefromOhio]

Yes those people are entitled as they have the ID card. No problem. You don't have it. Problem.

I GUARANTEE these journalists have military IDs....

[Allegra]

They are Americans, but they chose to go into harms way. I do not believe they have any HIGHER honor due them, and they should NOT be taken to military hospitals. ABC has good insurance...

Insurance for civilians can be quirky in Iraq. There aren't any HMO clinics here.

If an American civilian working in attachment to the military becomes badly injured or very ill, we can be treated by the military until we are able to be evacuated out of the country.

Our only other option would be an Iraqi hospital and well...I'm just going to leave it at that.

[hurly]

AFI 41-115, Health Services, Authorized Health Care And Health Care Benefits in the Military Health Services System (MHSS), July 25, 1994, paragraph 1.3.3 states: "At Air Force MTFs, civilian emergencies are authorized emergency care only. When the patient is medically stabilized, transfer to an appropriate civilian medical facility or discharge as appropriate."
This just the Air Farce. First one with legal references I could find. All the services have similar ones. Read the part about transfer to an appropiate civilian medical facility!

[eleni121]

BUT, I resent the amount of press given to these guys, when HEROes are being ignored, and castigated!
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Well said and absolutely right. It's the MSM and ABC is among them that twist and fabricate the truth about Iraq. Now we have to listen to the sob stories about these guys ad nauseum as if the media was somehow a glorious profession instead of what they really are: propagandists marketing news for their corporate interests.

[Allegra]

The back of my CAC card I had while over there allowed military hospitals for critical treatment.

I'm reading off of mine right now.

"Authorized Patronage."

UNLIMITED Exchange."

There's more stuff but I think those hit the point. ;-)

[Eagle Eye]

The PX priveledges alone are worth working in Iraq!

[stripes1776]

Why is this story getting so much more traction?

Because the ABC anchorman got his makeup smeared in a bomb blast before going on the air.

[Allegra]

The PX priveledges alone are worth working in Iraq!

I can't imagine what I'd do without the ol' PX.

P. S. The Green Zone PX sucks. The Victory/Liberty one is way cooler. And the Taji one is the coolest of them all.

[MikefromOhio]

that's what I am saying....

although I don't have my overseas CAC card anymore....

[MikefromOhio]

did the Haji mart down in the Green Zone ever come back after it was bombed?

[wtc911]

Please describe what is biased about this.

[Eagle Eye]

Anaconda used to have a 45 minutes wait to get in. We'd shop in pairs. One would go to the check out line and the other would shop then we'd trade places.

The smallest I saw was Al Qaim. Hadith didn't even have one and only a field kitchen.

And you'd think that the GZ would have something nice, at least as good as Victory North. (Isn't that the one by Dodge City and the Bathouse?)

[Allegra]

did the Haji mart down in the Green Zone ever come back after it was bombed?

You mean the one with all the rugs and stuff? Yeah, it's back.

The cafe that got bombed is back, too.

But we infidels don't go there.

Much.

[VOA]

Combat photography is a high risk profession.

Amen to that.
A few weeks ago, I saw some documentary on a Brit combat
reporter/photographer.
It included footage of himself and a group of other reporters
in the Balkans (Bosnia?).
They were there for safety and the gunfire sounded like it was well
off in the distance.
Then, one of the reporters suddenly just falls back onto the ground.
He got hit in the head by a stray round; seriously injured, but
recovered.
Just darned unlucky to get hit; really lucky to not get killed.

[wtc911]

As to who pays for this...I don't know but at one time I went to Kosovo for research on a project. I was there for ten days and was fortunate enough to go on a number of patrols with US troops out of Bondsteel. My regular insurance would not cover me since it considered Kosovo a war-zone. The US gov't wouldn't (in fact I never asked). I ended up paying Lloyds $1,000.00 USD per day for full coverage including death benefit.

[Becki]

"Bob and Doug were in Iraq ..."

Becki

[Allegra]

And you'd think that the GZ would have something nice, at least as good as Victory North. (Isn't that the one by Dodge City and the Bathouse?)

Yeah, the GZ has a great pool, some cool shops, a decent selection of fast-food places, but a really lame PX.

The big Victory North one is right across from Camp Parker. I used to live literally right across the street from it (behind some T-walls, of course.) There's a BK, a Popeye's and a Cinnabon there now, too. And a BUNCH of shops. It's almost like Kuwait.

Except for the occasional mortars and rockets, of course.

[MikefromOhio]

ahhh crap they got a Popeye's there now?!?

jeez....

[Allegra]

ahhh crap they got a Popeye's there now?!?

Yep. And Taji has a Taco Bell.

Those things all happened after I left those camps.

Dang it. ;-)