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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

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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

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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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To: darkangel82

According to my grandmother and her siblings, they filled a washtub out in the yard a couple times a week, and everyone washed. Free showers and hairwashing if they got a hard rain!


521 posted on 10/06/2007 12:35:41 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Lettuce dance, lettuce dance, everyone should lettuce dance.")
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To: stand watie

Hi, General! I’d stop to chat, but I have to make a poster and take it to church.


522 posted on 10/06/2007 12:36:09 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Lettuce dance, lettuce dance, everyone should lettuce dance.")
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To: Tax-chick
understood.

FAITH FIRST!!!

free dixie HUGS,sw

523 posted on 10/06/2007 12:49:54 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Tax-chick; stand watie; Anoreth
"Hi, General! I’d stop to chat, but I have to make a poster and take it to church."

The last poster you made took nearly twenty years.

524 posted on 10/06/2007 12:58:31 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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To: paulat

Do we have the best damn Army in the world, or what?

I mean the whole military is great! This is becoming a outstanding generation fo young folk. Many stepping up to the plate.

God Bless em’ all, every one of them.

Retired kudos!


525 posted on 10/06/2007 1:02:26 PM PDT by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
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To: truemiester; paulat; sionnsar; stephenjohnbanker
"Do we have the best damn Army in the world, or what?"

Yes.

We have an army to be proud of out in the world, and anomie at home to bring us shame.

Main Entry: an·o·mie
Variant(s): also an·o·my /'a-n&-mE/
Function: noun
Etymology: French anomie, from Middle French, from Greek anomia lawlessness, from anomos lawless, from a- + nomos law, from nemein to distribute -- more at NIMBLE :

social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values;

also : personal unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideals

526 posted on 10/06/2007 1:18:39 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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To: Monkey Face; NicknamedBob
I was going to ask you it it was true! LOL!

Yes, of course. Due to the fact that I was alive in 1907.

LOL!

Maybe we should ask Bob. He's older than dirt.

527 posted on 10/06/2007 1:43:24 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: NicknamedBob
Those cheapskate immigrants who were undercutting the wage rate by working for only fifteen cents an hour.

Oh, like my grandpa?

528 posted on 10/06/2007 1:50:23 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: fanfan
"Oh, like my grandpa?"

Exactly.

What did they think? That the streets were paved with gold?

529 posted on 10/06/2007 1:59:16 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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To: NicknamedBob

The streets were paved with something back then, but I don’t think it smelled like gold.


530 posted on 10/06/2007 2:06:22 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: NicknamedBob; fanfan

I think they were just happy to have paved streets.


531 posted on 10/06/2007 2:07:29 PM PDT by rottndog (This Tagline currently closed for maintenance and rehabilitation.)
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To: rottndog; NicknamedBob
I think they were just happy to have paved streets.

That's not the kind of paved I was refering to.

*sigh, still, no one can read my mind*

Did you know that in the 1900's the "futurists" of the time were seriously worried about how people in the cities would deal with all the horse s**t in the future?

Series!

532 posted on 10/06/2007 2:18:43 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: darkangel82

What does it taste like?


533 posted on 10/06/2007 2:19:32 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: fanfan
*sigh, still, no one can read my mind*

I read your mind just fine.

Of course, nowadays, some of your streets are paved with ice!

That ought to bring in the tourists!

534 posted on 10/06/2007 2:21:44 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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To: paulat

Remarkable Valor. If there is any hope for America, it will be in these kinds of men.


535 posted on 10/06/2007 2:23:46 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon
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To: fanfan

I’ve forgotten, since I haven’t had it in a while.


536 posted on 10/06/2007 2:25:42 PM PDT by darkangel82 (All right! Let's go Tribe!!)
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To: NicknamedBob
Ok, smarty pants.

What am I thinking?

537 posted on 10/06/2007 2:27:55 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: darkangel82

It was good, but I don’t remember what it tastes like?

Then it tastes exactly as I would imagine. Sounds glorious.

I’ll have to try some when I see it.
Thanks.

;-)


538 posted on 10/06/2007 2:31:34 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: NicknamedBob

Sorry for asking.

My mind flies around so fast, I can’t even catch a glimpse of it.


539 posted on 10/06/2007 2:36:57 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: fanfan
"My mind flies around so fast, I can’t even catch a glimpse of it."

Probably best that I wasn't paying too much attention, then.

I tend to smack at things that buzz around my head.

540 posted on 10/06/2007 2:56:52 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("The enemy of my enemy is an anemone." -- Nemo, and Nemo's father.)
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