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Military Medical Team Makes the 'Toughest Call' (GI IMPALED BY BOMB - courage abounds!!!)
ABC News ^
| 9/22/07
| Ruth Reiss
Posted on 09/23/2007 7:46:56 AM PDT by paulat
Unexploded Rocket-Propelled Grenade Impales Army Private in Afghanistan By RUTH REISS
[snip]
One RPG skidded past Lt. Mariani's vehicle. All of the vehicles had to quickly get out of the "kill zone." But before they could get to safety, two rockets hit Pvt. Moss' Humvee.
Staff Sgt. Eric Wynn, 33, the soldier in the front passenger seat, felt one slice through his face. Moss remembers the truck practically lift up. He was thrown up against the Humvee and then moved to return fire.
"I smelled something smoking and I looked down ... and I was smoking," he said.
Wynn turned to tell Moss where to fire and saw the tail fins of the RPG sticking out of Moss' side.
Roughly the length of a baseball bat, an RPG travels at the speed of a bullet. At the front end is the warhead -- a large grenade. The detonator and fuel are contained in the shaft. On the back are its fins, pieces of metal that stick out like legs on a camera tripod. The RPG is the weapon of choice for many of the world's guerillas.
Luckily for Moss, the company medic Spc. Jared Angell, 23, who the soldiers call "Doc," was in his Humvee
[snip]
A Human Bomb The RPG that had plowed into Moss' lower abdomen stretched from one hip to the other. If the RPG went off, it would kill everyone within 30 feet of him. Yet Angell stayed close, bandaging his wounds and stabilizing the weapon so that movement wouldn't cause it to explode.
Moss was still fully conscious, so Angell ordered him to not look down at the injury. He didn't want Moss to panic.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; americasbest; angellisanangel; catz; dangeruxb; grenade; heroes; medic; molassesmiasma; monkeyfacerules; oef; rpg; sionnsar; spcjaredangell; undead; undeadthread; wia
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To: Monkey Face
*tanks*
-or-
?
421
posted on
10/04/2007 7:27:35 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Let us NEVER forget those who have paid the highest price, that we may live in FREEDOM!)
To: Monkey Face
You are the MAN, sion! And that's all I am. You are the QUEEN here, milady!
(And good night.)
422
posted on
10/04/2007 7:28:00 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(what happened to my tagline????)
To: darkangel82
That was a delicious smack down.
423
posted on
10/04/2007 7:28:19 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Let us NEVER forget those who have paid the highest price, that we may live in FREEDOM!)
To: sionnsar
Whoa! I am groveling, here....
Chivalry is NOT dead, as long as you’re on the UT!
424
posted on
10/04/2007 7:31:03 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.)
To: rottndog
425
posted on
10/04/2007 7:31:51 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.)
To: rottndog
426
posted on
10/04/2007 7:32:08 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(Socialism is NOT an American value.)
To: Monkey Face
No, this...
Is SUMANAGUN!
427
posted on
10/04/2007 7:40:35 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Let us NEVER forget those who have paid the highest price, that we may live in FREEDOM!)
To: rottndog
YOIKS!
You are SO right!
LOL!
428
posted on
10/04/2007 7:42:54 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.)
To: Monkey Face
And with that, I really AM going to bed!
Later, All!
429
posted on
10/04/2007 8:01:32 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.)
To: Monkey Face
430
posted on
10/04/2007 8:04:39 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Let us NEVER forget those who have paid the highest price, that we may live in FREEDOM!)
To: rottndog
So it is just us right now?
431
posted on
10/04/2007 8:07:13 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(All right! Let's go Tribe!!)
To: darkangel82
Looks like....
Cubbys were winning by 2, now losing by 2...
432
posted on
10/04/2007 8:08:55 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Let us NEVER forget those who have paid the highest price, that we may live in FREEDOM!)
To: rottndog
433
posted on
10/04/2007 8:11:14 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(All right! Let's go Tribe!!)
To: All
Thanks for keeping this thread going, folks...there ain’t too many people who need to see this.
434
posted on
10/04/2007 8:29:50 PM PDT
by
paulat
(I'd rather spend my vote on someone who CAN ACTUALLY BE ELECTED)
To: paulat
We’ll keep it going until the end of the month...this story should never die.
435
posted on
10/04/2007 9:14:15 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Let us NEVER forget those who have paid the highest price, that we may live in FREEDOM!)
To: All
Time for bed...
Good Night!
436
posted on
10/04/2007 9:36:51 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Let us NEVER forget those who have paid the highest price, that we may live in FREEDOM!)
To: rottndog; Monkey Face
Good morning!
Driving-out howya! Two stops on Girl Scouts business, and by then it will be lunchtime.
The good news is that we don’t have to go anywhere to get voter registration forms for tomorrow, because we can print them off the Board of Elections website. I love the Internet!
437
posted on
10/05/2007 6:25:56 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("There is no such thing as death for a Christian who believes in the Resurrection." ~ Fr. Ho Lung)
To: rottndog; NicknamedBob
Now THAT's a railgun!
438
posted on
10/05/2007 7:23:09 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(what happened to my tagline????)
To: sionnsar
439
posted on
10/05/2007 8:13:46 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face; sionnsar; NicknamedBob
Good Morning!
It’s threatening to rain....
Hope it doesn’t....I have a mission to get to.
440
posted on
10/05/2007 8:18:00 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Let us NEVER forget those who have paid the highest price, that we may live in FREEDOM!)
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