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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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!
Hi, General! I’d stop to chat, but I have to make a poster and take it to church.
FAITH FIRST!!!
free dixie HUGS,sw
The last poster you made took nearly twenty years.
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!
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
Yes, of course. Due to the fact that I was alive in 1907.
LOL!
Maybe we should ask Bob. He's older than dirt.
Oh, like my grandpa?
Exactly.
What did they think? That the streets were paved with gold?
The streets were paved with something back then, but I don’t think it smelled like gold.
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!
What does it taste like?
I read your mind just fine.
Of course, nowadays, some of your streets are paved with ice!
That ought to bring in the tourists!
Remarkable Valor. If there is any hope for America, it will be in these kinds of men.
I’ve forgotten, since I haven’t had it in a while.
What am I thinking?
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.
;-)
Sorry for asking.
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.
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