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Military Medical Team Makes the 'Toughest Call' (GI IMPALED BY BOMB - courage abounds!!!)
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| 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.
[snip]
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: HKMk23
1,981
posted on
10/31/2007 3:25:41 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
To: HKMk23
1,982
posted on
10/31/2007 3:25:58 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
To: HKMk23
1,983
posted on
10/31/2007 3:26:08 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
To: HKMk23
1,984
posted on
10/31/2007 3:26:20 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
To: HKMk23
1,985
posted on
10/31/2007 3:26:39 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
To: HKMk23
1,986
posted on
10/31/2007 3:26:53 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
To: Lady Jag
Happy Halloween back at ya! /wink
1,987
posted on
10/31/2007 3:28:51 PM PDT
by
KoRn
To: Lady Jag
That’s a lotta costume for that pooch...
1,988
posted on
10/31/2007 3:29:52 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: TASMANIANRED
It is their natural elevation.
ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,
For example ALT+167 makes: º as in 62º
1,989
posted on
10/31/2007 3:30:40 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '08...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
To: HKMk23
Sorry I trod on your foot. It wasn’t intentional...
1,990
posted on
10/31/2007 3:30:50 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: Lady Jag
What pray tell is Alt 167.....It’s all geek to me.
1,991
posted on
10/31/2007 3:31:32 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: Lady Jag
I thought I had a pic of Sol as the Easter Alligator but I can’t find it anywhere.
1,992
posted on
10/31/2007 3:32:35 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: TASMANIANRED
Are you kidding me, he loves to fly.
Just like these guys love being jaunty.
They're all laughing and having a blast.
1,993
posted on
10/31/2007 3:37:46 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '08...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
To: TASMANIANRED
Just push the alt key and with the key down, hit 1, 6 & 7 in order on your numerical keypad.
Try ALT with other numerical combinations.
1,994
posted on
10/31/2007 3:39:57 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '08...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
To: KoRn
1,995
posted on
10/31/2007 3:42:08 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '08...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
To: TASMANIANRED
Ah, no worries.
Happens when yer waltzin’ along and somebody comes breezin’ through in a foxtrot.
1,996
posted on
10/31/2007 3:43:43 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
To: HKMk23
1,997
posted on
10/31/2007 3:50:18 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
To: Monkey Face
1,998
posted on
10/31/2007 3:50:34 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
To: HKMk23
1,999
posted on
10/31/2007 3:50:50 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
To: Monkey Face
2,000
posted on
10/31/2007 3:51:03 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(It's time for Hallowe'en, so practice safe hex.)
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