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 approve.
A quick booted-from-DVD-cuz-the-O/S-has-a-virus “Howdy” to y’all!
Got bad juju on my office PC. TCPView has HUNDREDS of entires similar to these:
[System Process]:0 TCP (MyComputer):3037 sinatra.amat.com:domain TIME_WAIT
[System Process]:0 TCP (MyComputer):3040 (NetworkServer):domain TIME_WAIT
[System Process]:0 TCP (MyComputer):3043 (NetworkServer):domain TIME_WAIT
[System Process]:0 TCP (MyComputer):3046 (NetworkServer):domain TIME_WAIT
[System Process]:0 TCP (MyComputer):3049 (NetworkServer):domain TIME_WAIT
[System Process]:0 TCP (MyComputer):3052 (NetworkServer):domain TIME_WAIT
Ports being used are between 1025 and 5000; usually skipping by 2s or 3s. When the spawning process gets to 5000, it begins over again at 1025.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
It LOOKS like a “rootkit” virus, but, if so, it’s so new that McAfee didn’t catch it, and their online “stinger” tool detected nothing amiss amongst the 1,077,383 files on my hard drive.
GOOD NEWS is I get a NEW machine in a few days. BAD NEWS is I’m supposed to be hard at work on a mission critical project; not debugging my machine. Tech support was at my desk, yesterday, and did an hours worth of nosing around, but all that they offered was to migrate my data to a new profile; a “solution” with something like 50/50 odds of actually curing the problem. You’d think they’d have offered to re-image my system and migrate my profile to that fresh image, but they didn’t.
So, unless I change my mind and let them go through the likely-useless exercise of making me a new profile, I’m stuck doing this myself until my new machine is ready.
Hope all of you are having more fun than this!
I noticed that DH was tired a lot but put it down to the fact that both of us had been run off our feet in the past year. He would sit down to watch a little TV and be out like a light. He put it down to years of Army training where you got what rest you could when you could.
I normally went to sleep before he did which is why it took me a bit to notice that he would routinely stop breathing in his sleep for a few seconds. After a couple of nights of listening closely I asked him if he had ever been checked for Sleep Apnea. He said no. I told him what I was seeing while he slept and that I thought that maybe he should bring it up to his doctor. He did and his doctor ordered a sleep test. Turned out that he would stop breathing on an average of 30 times an hour.
It was caught before it did serious damage and with the help of a breathing machine he is doing fine. In fact now that he is getting a good nights sleep he is doing better then fine.
:does happy dance:
His doctor says that this condition can be present if you are fat or thin. In good physical shape or not. The main indicator is if you snore although there are even some that don't even have that symptom. The up shot is that if you do snore or if you are continently tired or for sure if someone tells you that you stop breathing in your sleep, get tested. Sleep Apnea can do great physical and mental harm.
:Gets down off soap box.:
Can you imagine how long the poem would have been by then?
My daughter runs a sleep lab, and Apnea is nothing to dismiss.
I’m glad you caught it! He will rest much better once the treatment has started.
I have Sleep Apnea....been using a CPAP for 2 years now. It took several months to get used to it, but now I actually get a GOOD night’s sleep. Sometimes I stop breathing even with the machine on, and it detects this and sounds an alarm. Well worth the trouble it took to get it.
BTW, I think my sleep problems are also a partial result of my military service.
about 26,000 words long, and growing
I had a friend with severe sleep apnea who died of cardio problems brought on by her apnea at the age of 39...she was diagnosed before cpaps were commonly available, and refused to use the oral device they made for her. She had a miserable marriage and I think was using the sleep deprivation as a way to escape her misery. And when she was getting to the point she wanted more from life, her heart failed. Sigh.
When I got married in ‘99 realized hubby had it, and made him go get a sleep test shortly afterward. He’s been on a cpap ever since.
Yup! Except for the fact that I have to keep a second machine in my office ONLY because I can't upload powerpoints to NetMeeting (LiveMeeting?) from my primary machine, my laptop, and giant corporate IT just can't figure out why.
I’ve had my machine booted to WinPE most of the day running Ad-Aware SE and Rootkit detection tools against it without the O/S installed on the HD being active.
Nothing.
Still, SOMETHING is trying to LISTEN for incoming traffic. Examining the firewall logs, XP is hanging the blame on CcmExec.exe, but it may be just the “Front Man”; the real culprit could be in the background.
More work to do.
Somehow I have mixed feelings about your communicating your communication difficulties to us.
But I do commiserate with you. The magic inside the box is really a house of cards whose fall can have tectonic implications, but only on a personal level.
Luckily, I was still able to communicate with the card that really mattered, and my new box now regularly duplicatively communicates with an external box.
Asbestos I can tell, now, it’s a server-side issue between the SMS server and my local SMS client.
Something that’s supposed to answer some specific communications from my box isn’t, so my box is just sitting there with it’s horn in it’s ear shouting to itself, “EH??!! WHAT’S THAT YA SAY???!! SPEAK UP SONNY!!”
Guess you could say that my box hasn’t the nack for knowing an ACK from a NAK.
Now I must go NAK, or I won’t ACK tomorrow, and won’t be back to yack.
[Aack!]
O-KAY... So I lied. But, I just couldn’t go off to commune with my pillow without first leaving you all with the entertainment of this video of SEVERAL ingenious Rube Goldberg devices.
[TIP: Turn down the volume on your computer speakers unless you want the oft-repeated Japanese jingle knocking about in your cranium all day long.]
Good morning!
Fascinating! I’m glad your husband is doing better, and I’ll remember to be alert for this.
My husband sleeps like a rock, in spite of ten years in the military. I don’t know how he made it through training; he can get up when the alarm goes off, sit down in a chair, and fall asleep!
Good Morning!
Good morning, and LOL!
Good afternoon! It’s a fine sunny day in the 80’s here.
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