Speaking of amputations, IED's are some nasty devices. One of the detriments to media blackouts, or nonpublication of intensely graphic video, pictures of victim's of IED"S is that people don't have any real sense of the horror they cause. So there is an insulation from that devastation, and many people just don't understand that reality. But I understand, so that when a repeat combat veteran like SGT. John Winnick says "I did this action in defense of my Marines," and "I didn't want them to end up like other Marines I have seen," then my reaction is to not only believe him, but to put him on a pedestal and declare him to be one of the finest representatives of the people who REPRESENT me in WAR.
I work in a dangerous industry, speaking of amputations and saws, et al. A week ago last Monday, one of MY men was not following proper training and safety and chewed off most of all four fingers of his right hand in a shaper accident. So I get to hold a screaming man in my arms , carrying him to a waiting vehicle for immediate medevac.
It is not exactly combat, but again, when a man trained, and, with the experience of SGT. John Winnick chooses to act in the manner he did, and other people who have no real understanding of that reality attack him I want to stick various parts of their anatomy in a grinder.
I meant, "What I do, 'it is not exactly combat'" Don't mean for any confusion there.
Bump and grind.
I think that you will find that the political appointees in the Pentagon who have been doing this lack any of the choicer parts, brains or ba?!s, that you would want to stick in said grinder.