Posted on 10/11/2009 9:19:38 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Continuing our gripping series of our extraordinary series about the doctors and nurses who go into the very heart of battle we reveal the terrifying events that unfolded in Basra in 2005, when a Warrior tank, sent to help an RAF nurse whose ambulance was surrounded by a hostile crowd, was hit by a petrol bomb.
The soldiers inside threw themselves out, engulfed by flames. Their dramatic exit was captured by photographs that went round the world. But inside the flaming tank, the gunner was trapped. He was sent to rescue the medic; the question now was - would the medic be able to save him?
Saving the life of a dying man is hard enough in a hospital casualty department, but in a bucking helicopter tearing at 120mph over the desert or in the back of a lorry careering down bomb-cratered roads, the task is Herculean.
In Basra in southern Iraq, Flight Sergeant Frank Mincher, a Royal Air Force casualty nurse, was ferrying the victim of an improvised explosive device - a roadside bomb - to hospital. It was his first experience of the horrific effects of this type of terror weapon. He counted 200 wounds on the victim's body. 'Every part of his torso, body, legs and arms had shrapnel damage to it. He was bleeding to death.'
In the back of the Sea King helicopter, his heart stopped beating. Mincher crashed his chest to try to bring him back. Thirty compressions, two deep breaths into the mouth.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
bttt
war is hell
You know, reading this, I wonder why we don’t just turn the whole middle-east into a sea of glass and be done with it. We’ve got enough nukes.
These stories are important, but why now? Why are we suddenly getting all these stories (I’m starting to see them in the newspaper) about the terrible wounds the military have received?
Where were (and are) all the stories of bravery, stories of heroism, stories of the military helping children, stories of building infrastructure, stories of grateful Iraqis? There has been a complete blackout in the media on those stories for six years while the stories of atrocities and roadside bombings, etc. filled the airwaves. Once the surge started working, the stories stopped, and now we start getting stories about the wounded.
What is the agenda? To prepare the public for an abandonment of our Iraqi and Afghan allies?
My solution, three years ago. Join the human race or...
Meh duh!!!
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