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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I need to come back & visit that. Off shortly to Mens’ Group at church, then Support the Troops (AND their mission) rally. Back later.
Hello! Is anybody still here?
I’m finally home! And I get a day off tomorrow! YAY, ME!!
Howdy.
I watched “Transformers” today. It was AWEsome! (For a “teen” movie!)
WOW! FR is running nicely, today!
How was your Men’s Group meeting?
I’ve got a transformer right here at my desk.
All it does is hum.
The catz were hungry.
Some of us are back from day one of the church festival. I’m about to run over to Wal-mart to pick up some supper! Then I have to go back to church with another sign-up list for volunteers. We didn’t have enough today!
Tom had fun in the dunking booth. I’m thinking of taking my bathing suit tomorrow and taking a turn, if the climbing wall is running smoothly.
We had several transformers in Germany....
But the movie was much better!
Don’t drown any ponies playing water polo. </Foxworthy>
It all sounds like a lot of fun, no matter what you do!
I don’t think I could handle the climbing wall. dunking might be fun!
Hi all! Long day — “Troops Rally” ran almost twice as long as expected, spent a couple hours drafting a letter to legislative committees and and am about to crash for the night.
Morning! I don’t plan to climb - I just have to handle the ticket sales.
It looks like we may be short of prizes for the children’s games tomorrow. My fall-back position is to send someone to buy Hallowe’en candy! If that doesn’t work, we’ll just cut the price, except for the climbing wall.
Catz were rumpusing early again.
Morning, all!
Morning. Fifty-two degrees this morning....*shiver* North wind at 19, which puts the windchill at about 37. *shudder*
I’m staying in where it’s sorta warm.
‘Morning!
Your weather sounds all northwesty. That wonderful chill, the smell of fireplace smoke, leaves falling gracefully to the ground... clogging up my pond filter. Argh!
No fireplace smoke...the wind is blowing the wrong way for that. But I have to shovel the leaves in order to open my security/screen door.
I don’t think I’ll go anywhere at all today!
Hot ‘n windy here...
Santa Ana’s are blowing through.
That won’t last long!
*HUG*
How’s it going?
LOL! Nice drippy day today.
I’ve been gardening in spurts. Pull a few dead leaves, run inside to get out of the rain, come back out and pull more leaves, run back inside...
Ah. Now I see how you became an ex-spurt gardener.
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