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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Don't know how I missed seeing that when you first posted it, but...WOW! That'd be an event worth having in the family video library. Whatever the case, though, make sure that little girl grows up with an understanding of who her Daddy is.
I just hope he didn't have to go straight from the airport to the Camp Pendleton fire line. Things were hot and heavy out there, for awhile this week. Of course, that might have made it a miserable trip for you, even if you had been able to be there. All that smoke and ash in the air has been making breathing very unpleasant for many people; even those without respiratory issues.
Maybe Wodtan would be less agitated if we went with...
Sunday
Monday
Deuceday
Triceday
Quadsday
Quinsday
Sexday
LOL!
Saturday! What a day!
Funny how saturnine and saturnalia have the same root word.
If we’re going back to the July thread, can we have July weather too?
Now that's something we haven't done. A loop in the Undead Thread.
Just close the loop, or it’ll never end.
Jake will spend some time at home (GA) before going to Pendelton. Maybe a couple of weeks, and when he flies to CA, he will stop here to see his dad, step-mom, and favorite G-Ma!
I don’t know if his orders are concurrent, or if his wife and daughter will follow.
His dog, Dax, was retired after this tour in Iraq, so his time in Pendelton will be getting acquainted with and training his new dog. I think it’s for 12-18 months, depending on the new dog. Dax saved his life, and I guess one tour was enough.
(Jake is in the MPs)
Yah...”Sexday.” Draw your gear at the pharmacy and light the smoking lamp.
Hey, I’m all for truth in advertising; calling a spade a spade, and all that.
Oh, very well. Just don't do it on an excavation site.
I think it's a cute idea!
I just sent the Spirit of Poison Ivy Causing Massive Itching (and Helen of Troy and Ruby the Red Fairy) off to the Cub Scouts pack meeting with their Dad. It's raining again; the catz are offended. We got pictures of the Spirit. He'd better not damage his leaves and berries, because I'm not buying more!
Whoa. You can BUY those now? I thought they were included....
My grandfather once made the mistake of using the term “Mormon board” in reference to a common implement used to backfill trenches.
That was on a jobsite in Salt Lake City.
He’d never heard it called anything else, until then.
Erk!
You can buy anything at Wal-mart.
*whispers*
Oh.
:o0
Didn't that used to be the policy at "Harrod's" in London??
“You can buy anything at Wal-mart.”
[SENEX]
Everybody ought to have a maid,
Everybody ought to have a working girl,
Everybody ought to have a lurking girl
To putter around the house.
Everybody ought to have a maid,
Everybody ought to have a menial
Consistantly congenial
And quieter than a mouse.
Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delicious,
Tidying up the dishes,
Neat as a pin.
Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful,
Sweeping out,
Sleeping in.
Everybody ought to have a maid,
Someone who you hire when you’re short of help
To offer you the sort of help
You never get from a spouse:
Fluttering up the stairway,
Shuttering up the windows,
Cluttering up the bedroom,
Buttering up the master,
Puttering all around the house!
Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delicious,
Tidying up the dishes,
Neat as a pin.
Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be delightful,
Sweeping out,
Sleeping in.
Everybody ought to have a maid,
Someone who in fetching you your slipper will
Be winsome as a whipporwill
And graceful as a grouse:
Skittering down the hallway,
Flittering through the parlor,
Tittering in the pantry,
Littering up the bedroom—
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/afunnythinghappenedonthewaytotheforum/everybodyoughttohaveamaid.htm
I think when I saw that movie, most of the “good stuff” had been cut. *sigh*
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