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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That’s wonderful Face!
Did they take pictures?
Yes, but I’ll have to send them to your email. The escort photos aren’t available, yet.
But if you want to see him, give me your email addy...FReepmail, of course!
My son says we should banish Wednesdays. (not the cat.)
Help!
Banish Mondays, and banish truck drivers that refuse to read and understand signs, then decide to argue with everyone about their failure to read signs.
Der Prinz will bring him home in the truck.
Banish! Banish! Banish!
Ban them? Or shoot them? Er... politely of course...
Great, now that old Vanish bathroom cleanser commercial is stuck in my head, only as “Banish” bathroom cleanser..
Ahwell...it’s what you get for being AWOL for so long.
*smirk*
That’s a relief. I would hate to think of Pat as a floatie...;o]
Oh no, it’s worse than that.
You have to roll the d20 to banish grime.
And it fights back.
Dang!
I was thinking more in terms of “The Great Race” with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, a whole bunch of other stars, and plenty of pugs!
Pugs.. hmm.
Can they be used as cleaning scrubbies?
No...they’re only good for chasing parked cars.
Hmm, that has uses.
None good or ‘ethical’, but useful.
(Amusing too.)
:o])
Pugs are my favorite dog. Next in line is a wire haired fox terrier. Or maybe it’s the other way around....
I’ve always had medium sized mix breed dogs.
Last ‘breed’ dog I ran across was a full blood pit named Daz that was as smart as a brick, but extremely cuddly.
Though overly excitable, all you had to do was look at him, and he’d leap straight up and down because the humans were looking at him, and he liked people.
Didn’t matter if he was under the table when you saw him, you’d hear his head knocking a hole in the tabletop as he happily hopped under there.
We had a red and white Siberian husky that was like that. They aren’t normally watch dogs, but this guy always got between me and whoever was at the door. I loved his ol’ stupid self.
He was raised as a show dog, so we had to teach him to play, and also teach him to “sing” for a “cookie.” Now THAT was funny!
There is no explaining Daz.
He belonged to a friend, and had the unfortunate existence of having rocks smarter than him.
But he did love to wrestle, and have his tummy scritched.
He’d fall over like a tree if you scritched him right.
Then he’d lay there like he was dead while you scritched away.
This guy was like that, too. He’d lay there at your feet, belly up, until you scritched him.
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