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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Too funny!!
Yeh,as I was reading this I was thinking....”John Kerry got a Purple Heart, didn’t he?”For getting his butt splashed with flying rice, as I remember.
Are you trying to say that John Kerry was in Vietnam??
John Kerry was in Viet Nam?
69F here, overcast with rain coming through.
It is wonderful that you discovered this so early!
Perhaps many people have this syndrome, but no one catches it.
Your first anniversary must be coming up soon, non?
:-) Congratulations!
How do you manage to get up so early every day?
Baby insists on it! He’s kicking around by 6:00 Eastern, usually. If you’re in central or mountain, then I’m not really up very early :-).
Vlad wakes you up at 6?
I’m on EST too, and I usually get up at 7 ish.
I guess 6 isn’t too bad at his age.
Young kids are always happy to wake up in the morning.
:-)
Wait.
You didn’t mean.....?
No, no, not another baby! Except for the kitten, and she seems to sleep downstairs.
Our coffeepot goes off at six and beeps a few times, and James usually needs to go to the bathroom, and Vlad wakes up as soon as anyone else is moving around.
It takes so long for everyone to get a turn in the bathroom that we have to start early!
Sunny and 85 here....might have to crank on the A/C tonight.
LOL.
Sorry.
:-)
Extrordinary. Nobody gets left behind is a way of life. What a remarkable story.
50F and falling -- I just cranked the heat up to 62F inside.
It's also VERY dark outside and I just heard a bit of rumbling. Couldn't see it but lighting was causing static on the car radio on the way home. Maybe we'll get us a nice thunderstorm.
Hiya, Kids!
One of my brothers came to town today, so I had to play hostess. Now I’m really nauseous, so I thought some conversation with FRiends would help me to forget about the way my stomach feels. Maybe.
I was wondering where you'd been today. How are things?
It's getting interesting here. My Egypt trip was approved yesterday, and I booked my flight this morning. Leave Seattle early morning, arrive in JFK later afternoon. (Haven't been in JFK in over a quarter-century!) A couple of hours later, early evening, I board a non-stop to Cairo arriving noon local time. Not as grueling as India, but it's going to be WAY too many hours in an airline seat.
Chicken soup?
Sprite/7up?
Medicinal Mary Jane?
I was here for a bit this morning, but I had errands to run, and soon after I got back my brother and his wife got here, then we went to lunch. (Just what I needed...)
They want me to go with them to see the Dancing Fountains at Bellagio, and the Fremont Street Experience, but I don’t do so well at night. I’ll wait and see. My SIL wasn’t feeling well when they got here, and looked pretty puny during lunch, so I’ll wait to see what happens.
*ick*
None of the above. I had French onion soup (at Marie Callender’s) with garlic bread for lunch, thinking it would help, but...
Thanks for the suggestions, though... *hug*
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