Posted on 04/12/2008 2:34:42 PM PDT by george76
Spotting irregularities is a tactic that is drilled into the minds of Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers throughout training and in practice while in Iraq.
Soldiers recently watched as a car pulled up to an entry control point at Forward Operating Base Callahan in northern Baghdad. They continued to watch as a woman stepped out of the car holding a bag. Once the woman dropped the bag near the gate, internal alarms were ringing and a careful search was called for and conducted...
...That search yielded a newborn baby wrapped tightly in several cloths. Soldiers raced to the bag, retrieved the child and brought him to the aid station to be examined.
“We unwrapped it to make sure he was alive – and he wasn’t sick, he wasn’t dead, he wasn’t injured,” said Staff Sgt. Paul Briscoe, the aid station non-commissioned officer in charge at FOB Callahan. “He was a perfectly healthy baby. I’m guessing three to seven days old. He was in perfect health. There wasn’t a scratch on him.”
After the medics were satisfied the baby, who by this time had drawn the nickname “Alex Callahan” after the Soldier who found him and the name of the base, was in no need of immediate medical attention, the focus shifted to what they would do with the child.
An interpreter working at the base volunteered to go to a nearby store to buy diapers and formula while another interpreter took care of Alex. Briscoe said the aid station became a hub of activity as word spread throughout the small base of the new arrival.
(Excerpt) Read more at blackfive.net ...
Aw...he’s cute.
...Meanwhile, back in the States, women are being cleansed of these “mistakes” before they have a chance to speak up.
*HUGS* to you, and BUMP.
They tried to get Bhutto with a baby.
Like I keep repeating. They serve with HONOR.
They would have advised her to put the baby up for abortion.
This is too precious not to share.
That was my first thought, too.
I guess we don’t have to hate ourselves anymore. < / s
God bless you. It’s not over yet for you!
Such a heart warming event.
Thank you for the post & the ping & a bit thanks to all who serve!
Very nice story. Another Iraqi life saved.
Somehow I doubt the MSM or Hollyweird would bother to cover or make a movie over this outstanding episode.
Outstanding.
Carolyn
It has happened in the past.
Beautiful story...as if we didn’t have enough reasons to be proud of them!
At least she didn’t abort him.
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