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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Greetings Darling,
Do you have clean air?
I have rain.
Sometimes the flu shot make me feel yucky for a day or so, but it's worth it to me.
:-)
She’s the Big Cat.
That helps.
;-)
It’s been many years since I had one of those, I avoid needles whenever possible.
Me too, especially when they want to take some thing out of me.
I deal with the public, and I can’t afford to get sick, so I just do it.
Believe me, if I didn’t have to, I wouldn’t.
We’ve lost the DVD player remote, and the catz won’t tell us where it is.
They’re probably using it as a stuner.
(For your Department of Useless Information, I’m wearing black clothes to church tomorrow, and will don a pair of orange socks with little ghosts on the ankle. Wish I had an orange sweater...)
I haven’t had a flu shot in I don’t know how long. A don’t get the flu any more. Or colds. But I always feel as though I’m coming down with one or the other. *sigh*
I have a couple of friends who drive the buses here, and they are always first in line to get the flu shots. They can’t afford to be off work.
Check near the telephone table.
An orange sweater would probably call too much attention to you in church.
Yup. She almost decided against it when I learned I was going to Vienna in December, but Vienna will come around again. Cairo won't.
The need for the shot is directly related to the amount of public exposure one has.
That’s the idea! LOL!
You will send us pictures, right?
Yep. And I don’t blame them at all for being first in line. I hate it when someone I know falls ill, for any reason.
I don’t get out in public much, which is a good thing, since I’m kinda paranoid about germs.
I figure if you’re too clean (anti-bacterial everything) you’ll probably be sicker than someone who allows him/herself to be exposed to illness. At least, that’s how I was raised.
WOW! Sunshine!
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