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’ve mostly been here, except for 45 minutes when I had to go to Wally World to pick up a prescription.
I’ve mostly been lurking, waiting for someone else to show up. I talk to myself enough ~ I don’t need to do it online, too! LOL!
So, talk to me, already!
We were out until about 11:30, and then had naps. Shannon was sitting by the keyboard looking smug when we got back; I haven’t been able to figure out what she did on the computer :-).
Hi Sion,
I promised I’d answer your question.......
I’m fine thanks, and how are you?
It grey and rainy here, just the way you like it.
How’s LOB feeling?
How old is she?
Howdy!
Are you cold? We have lovely weather...overcast, warm, low humidity, no wind....but still some smoke from the CA fires.
About 5 months.
Maybe Shannon killed your mouse? Or “adjusted” it...?
You had another baby?
You leave your baby at home alone?
At the computer?
Did you name your new cat Shannon?
Sounds good to me.
Shannon is the kitten; that was her name when she arrived.
LOL.
Hey! How is your Saturday? Is LoM feeling better?
Ahhh,.....
The old “guilty kitten look”, eh?
I’d be afraid. Vey afraid.
Dragging today. Slept until noon -- this is not like me.
It grey and rainy here, just the way you like it.
Sunny and cold here.
How’s LOB feeling?
Still under the weather. Apparently it's the typhoid vaccine; she takes the last pill today then things should turn up.
It was nice. The catz are still snoozing, but the brothers finished all the muffins and are now running around screaming.
I haven’t noticed anything different. Maybe she was just scouting.
Really dragging today. Just went and filled my absentee ballot — about all I can muster myself up for.
Typhoid vaccine?
Where are you taking her?
I think all that sugar went right to their heads.
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