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Military Medical Team Makes the 'Toughest Call' (GI IMPALED BY BOMB - courage abounds!!!)
ABC News ^
| 9/22/07
| Ruth Reiss
Posted on 09/23/2007 7:46:56 AM PDT by paulat
Unexploded Rocket-Propelled Grenade Impales Army Private in Afghanistan By RUTH REISS
[snip]
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
[snip]
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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: NonLinear; sionnsar; Darksheare
If you do that, you might get caught in a time warp, and that would be bad.
1,781
posted on
10/28/2007 9:25:57 AM PDT
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: darkangel82; Darksheare; NonLinear; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; fanfan; sionnsar
Good Morning!
Speaking of timewarps....looking at my computer clock I see 9:25...all my other clocks say 10:25....
And then I remembered daylight savings has shifted back, so all the preprogrammed time shifts are wrong. Thought I had an extra hour, and then was disappointed when it evaporated right before my eyes.
1,782
posted on
10/28/2007 10:26:58 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Oh, the Wind....How It Blows....Where it starts....No One Knows....)
To: rottndog
My clock is automatic, too, but it seems to know the right gods to prod. My computer clock is right.
I hate the idea of resetting all my clocks twice a year. What a farce!
1,783
posted on
10/28/2007 10:30:14 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; NonLinear; sionnsar
Life is too short to worry about what will people think? Do you think other people think, "What is she thinking?"
Or do they think she is not thinking? Probably those other people don't think about it at all.
That's what I think.
1,784
posted on
10/28/2007 10:40:27 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Shake off all the fears & servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched/Jefferson)
To: NicknamedBob
I think I may have to get sunglasses.
1,785
posted on
10/28/2007 10:42:23 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Moonshine and bloodshed," said Newman. "A murder by moonlight," laughed Madame de Bellegarde.)
To: NicknamedBob
I think other people can think what they want about me. If they don’t pay my bills, it doesn’t matter. ;oP
1,786
posted on
10/28/2007 10:42:40 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
To: Monkey Face
That’s what I always say. Some people are too nosy for their own good.
1,787
posted on
10/28/2007 10:44:27 AM PDT
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: darkangel82
If someone gets too personal, I say, “Why? Are you writing a book? Or are you just nosy?”
They leave me alone.
1,788
posted on
10/28/2007 10:46:07 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
To: Monkey Face
LOL yep. Some people just never outgrew that high school gossiping stage.
1,789
posted on
10/28/2007 10:47:51 AM PDT
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; darkangel82
If someone gets too personal, I say, Why? Are you writing a book? Or are you just nosy? They leave me alone. That explains why I don't leave you alone.
1,790
posted on
10/28/2007 10:53:27 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Shake off all the fears & servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched/Jefferson)
To: NicknamedBob
What do you want to know for?
1,791
posted on
10/28/2007 10:54:00 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Moonshine and bloodshed," said Newman. "A murder by moonlight," laughed Madame de Bellegarde.)
To: darkangel82
And some have nothing better to do with their time.
1,792
posted on
10/28/2007 10:54:12 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
To: NicknamedBob
Yahbut. In your case, it’s called “research.”
1,793
posted on
10/28/2007 10:55:04 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
To: NicknamedBob
Lol, are you writing a book?
1,794
posted on
10/28/2007 10:57:14 AM PDT
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: darkangel82
"What do you want to know for?" -- T-C
"Lol, are you writing a book?" -- darkangel
I'm always writing a book.
1,795
posted on
10/28/2007 11:08:01 AM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Shake off all the fears & servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched/Jefferson)
To: rottndog
Standard time resumes next week, doesn’t it?
And how can it be standard when 3/4 of the year is spend in daylight savings?
1,796
posted on
10/28/2007 12:21:24 PM PDT
by
NonLinear
("They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -Thomas B Reed)
To: NonLinear; rottndog
"... how can it be standard when 3/4 of the year is spend in daylight savings?" It's about time!
I've got a lot of daylight piled up in my basement to get rid of.
1,797
posted on
10/28/2007 12:45:28 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Shake off all the fears & servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched/Jefferson)
To: NicknamedBob
We could all use some daylight, darkness and cold are depressing.
1,798
posted on
10/28/2007 12:55:38 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: NonLinear
1,799
posted on
10/28/2007 1:43:22 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
To: Monkey Face
1,800
posted on
10/28/2007 1:43:39 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
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