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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Was she adopted from a Dem family, or Republican?
Do you have a new bookmark for DU?
Dear God, what a story. You could not write it as fiction; no one would believe it.
It’s been asked before, but it bears repeating: Where do we find such men as these?
Dang. I thought I was the only one with the S-L-O-W-S today. I’m sure sorry to hear it’s contaigeous. I hope both of you are feeling better soon.
Cairo, Egypt, where my ISO committee is meeting this year. We fly out on the 8th.
They are this Generation’s Stripling Warriors. They fight because their mothers taught them to honor their manhood.
It’s slow, grey, and cloudy here too. ptui
oops
It seems a lot of the country is like that today. Glob Al Warming?
We got her from a cat-rescue agency, so I don’t know where she came from originally. Wednesday is extremely conservative, so if Shannon does anything liberal, Wednesday will beat her up.
Thanks. I just feel like going back to bed.
I just hope I don’t end up back up north.
So do it. We’ll miss you, but we’d rather have you feeling better. I’m sure LoM would like the company.
*hugs*
Why in the world would you end up “north?” Can’t you go west? Southwest?
Southwest of here would be the hurricane, I mean Gulf, coast. To the west, well, I have no money to go there.
Ah. Well, when I moved back here from TX (after a three-year stay) I did it in stages. I stayed in Tucson for 18 months, then moved back here.
Of course, it would depend on the kind of work you do, so it’s not a thing that “just anyone” can do. I had to really think it through.
I couldn’t stay in TX (weather was too humid) and I don’t care much more for the climate in Tucson, though I love the city itself.
So here I am...back home again.
LOL, she's seated right here, at her computer.
Yah? Hi, LoM!
Both of you have some chicken soup and go to bed early!
That’s cool!
Will she get to see the Pyramids, and the Sphinx?
That’s almost worth getting sick over.
:-)
I love Wednesday in this situation.
Some times it is good to be stern.
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