You can have mine:
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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The catz had a tussle under the router and knocked some connections loose. Anoreth has fixed it, but we have to leave for the library in a few minutes.
I found out my father’s cousin in Tulsa died a couple of weeks ago. He was a recluse, and had been dead for several days before the neighbors called the police.
LOL!
The wifey was working on the laptop on the dinner table...it went dead and wouldn’t charge....We were freaking about the data we hadn’t backed up....one of the dogz had kicked the plug out of the socket whilst chasing rabbits in her sleep.
Boyx are home, catz are asleep again, and we have to take lighter-than-air Pat to gymnastics.
Hotter than blazes here. Tomorrow is supposed to be “only” in the upper 80’s.
Oh that’s right...you have that humidity thingy going on...
It will be chillycold before you know it.
No, they couldn't. To hell with any manual or regulations. In war, nobody.....NOBODY is left behind. Been there, done that. I was Doc.
God bless these brave men. Nobody left behind!
The catz are snoozing again, just like yesterday. Maybe they’ll perk up if it ever gets cooler.
One of the lizards died. Hard to care too much; they don’t have personalities.
There storing up their energy to bug you later with...
No wun sed catz wur dum!
Shannon woke up to have a wash. Wednesday isn’t coming out from under the router.
Maybe we’ll see her tomorrow!
Hi, Kids. I lurked for a while, then had to leave, and drive across town (25 miles as the crow flies) as my daughter is in the hospital.
She was in so much pain from her back that she couldn’t walk. She will have surgery Friday or Monday. We’ll know later today, or tomorrow, when the MRI results are in.
Hey ‘Face!
Prayers up for your daughter.
Thanks. She was really miserable this morning. The pain meds they give her don’t seem to last too long, and she is sensitive to pain of any kind. She always thinks it’s worse than it is. “Worst-case scenario” kid.
I spent the morning with her, but I don’t know if I’ll go back tomorrow. It will depend on how she does tonight.
The hospital is so far...and the freeways are so full of idiots. I almost creamed one that pulled in fron of me, doing 50, when everyone around her was doing 65. I know if I hadn’t pumped my brakes, it would have been ME causing the accident, not her.
I’m gone for the night. I have a headache.
Did you hear me coming?
8-(
Good Night ‘Face!
Hey fan.
Hi Rottn’,
Hows life in the big time?
Plenty busy here.
And, Fall is almost completely here....my favorite time of year.
And you?
You stole my post.
That looks comfy!
Thanks!
Dinner is served soon.
Er, now.
I have to go eat and watch Heroes.
(I love Heroes)
Night Rottn’
Sorry to hear about your daughter’s back trouble. I hope they can fix it!
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