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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LOL! I’ll have to be an off-screen character. Bill wants the computer.
Got the lines down pat?
*sigh*
I’m off to bed, Chilluns. Another day of being a mommie to a mommie.
See ya tomorrow!
You should be the Beaver.
I’d like to play the Fawn.
Right down my alley. (Heh, heh, heh ...)
It sounds grand. Good Night, 'Face.
*smooch*
NnBob, you never struck me as being the fawning type...
G’night, ‘Face!
In the movie I saw, the Fawn seemed more like a Pan spirit. That's the one I can identify with.
From a Wiki article linked from Pan ...
"In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Bacchus (Greek Dionysus). However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and goddess Bona Dea, who, like the fauns, were goat-people."
I'm not sure I get all the distinctions between them, but it has a certain appeal to me.
Wine, anyone?
NnBob, in the movie (and book) he was a Faun, not a Fawn. The former is a Pan spirit -- the latter is Bambi (deer-spawn). You don't strike me as a Bambi. *\;-)
I couldn’t see the spelling in the word balloons.
Bambi?
Oh dear! ... No. I have a copy of Narnia right here within arm’s reach. I guess I could have looked it up. It always struck me as odd that they called him Fawn. He looked like Pan to me.
You learn something new every day. One day, you learn something fatal ... “This is funny,” said Doc Holliday.
Good morning. Doc Holliday had a subtle sense of humor.
Busy this morning, collecting our various items from where they landed in different vehicles all weekend, and we’ve probably left some stuff at the church, and we need to go to the library because we have books due, and the Blockbuster because we have movies due ...
And I need to make Tom a Hallowe’en costume by Thursday, for the Cub Scouts meeting.
Excelsior!
You ROCK!!!
You, too!
Morning, all. Teleconf up in half an hour. And the 3 PM teleconf just got moved to Thursday at 6 AM. Oh well.
Oh, what fun!
Speaking of fun, the boys have invented a new game: “The Bath From the North, Too!”
It involves lots of running, flailing, and shrieking, but no water (so far.) I think it’s time to declare a Universal Nap, before they realize they need water.
Good Morning!
1200?
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