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 like my work...
But my job sucks right now.
Maybe I’ll go on strike....
Wait...I work for myself...
I once threatened a “job action”; to do no more than was required of me.
The boss said he appreciated my improved attitude.
I was surprised to see that governmentstillsucks wasn’t part of Zotland. ;)
Yeah : )
Have you been on a three-hour tour?
“Have you been on a three-hour tour?”
Hell, I haven’t even met Gilligan!
If Robinson Crusoe had gotten Gilligan instead of Friday, he’d have given him back to the cannibals.
“I don’t know,” said the first cannibal, “does this taste funny to you?”
“If Robinson Crusoe had gotten Gilligan instead of Friday, he’d have given him back to the cannibals.”
Man you got that right..............Gilligan(Bob Denver) must have tasted like cannabis :-)
Smart boss...although idle hands do not mix well with busy minds...
Hi!
Hiya!
Nice little wind storm we had last night! Driving home from Tukwila after orchestra practice it looked like it was raining leaves.
Good Morning!
Nice ‘n chilly here. I love it.
It’s warming up here - mid 70’s. We’re going to run in a bit, and then Pat has gymnastics class, and then Anoreth has a babysitting job at a considerable distance, and I don’t suppose we’ll have much in the way of supper except eggs ...
Oh, well. Eggs are nourishing and cheap.
egg salad sandwiches, hard boiled eggs, deviled eggs, quiche, omeletes, scrambled, fried, poached.....my wifey makes this great egg caserole with sausage and cheese and bread chunks.....
Quite a menu, if you ask me.
Egg foo yung...
Eggs Benedict...
(isn’t that a Catholic dish?)
Juevos Rancheros.....
I slept through it. But I did see all the leaves down this morning.
Egg casserole with sausage, cheese, etc., would require a trip to the store for sausage! I’m planning to shop while Anoreth’s babysitting this evening, once I’m sure she’s comfortable with the two toddler girls and the young boy who’s not quite all there. (We’re used to this, having Pat.)
I can make an omelet of some sort, though. I saw a bell pepper and some cheese, and a can of biscuits. The children and I don’t care if we eat toast-and-something regularly, but Der Prinz is more fastidious :-).
Scotch eggs.
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