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Posted on 03/24/2002 11:33:16 PM PST by Snow Bunny
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I also taught a lot of them in the finer points of markmansip, but that's another story... ! $;-)
It's been really pretty weather here the past few days. I think they're calling for close to 70 degrees here. Good. Maybe I can get out in the yard this afternoon and fire up the weedeater to trim around the edges a bit.
I know I haven't posted in a few days, sorry. Sinus infections suck, and I'm working on getting our old desktop PC working again for when my hubby gets home. Kids are fine, they're getting over the sniffles too. Have a great day everyone!
LOL, I hear ya, a big 10 degrees here (course that is relatively warm)....
OK, off to the beast everyone, love you all, have a GREAT morning, hope to see you soon..J :^)
Also, we have Vietnamese in our family. My husbands 1st cousin was a helicopter pilot. He married a Vietnamese woman and they have 3 children. They live down the street from us, and Thein (his wife) is the SAINT of our family. She is absolutely the hardest working, most generous, loving, sweeeeetest woman you could know. We LOVE her so much. She finally got her mother over here a few years ago, after many, many years of trying. Ba (her mother) is in her 80's and LOVES America. Isn’t it great to be in your 80’s and finally see freedom and see America? My children will know what Thein and Ba lived and saw in Vietnam and what we were fighting for. Bless those poor people. Bless anyone living under evil, butchering regimes. We are trying to learn a few Vietnamese words so Ba won’t feel so alone at family dinners. She doesn’t speak English and sits there quietly with a big grin on her face. She is just the sweetest thing.
Sorry for my tangent. Your “love beads” post made me think of members of our family.
Awwww, the voices of my grandmother and mother are in my head. "Put a smile on that face and melody in your voice young lady! Do it cheerfully!". LOL
This U.S. Air Force handout picture shows U.S. Air Force Captain Luke A. Johnson, of the 23rd Fighter Squadron, who died when his F-16 fighter jet crashed during a maneuver near the American air base Spangdahlem in western Germany, March 21, 2002. The plane crashed in a flat, wooded and unpopulated area near the town of Landscheid and the cause was not known. REUTERS/Handout
Seven U.S. Air Force honor guards fire a salute in front of mourners for the deceased Cpt. Luke A. Johnson at the 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, western Germany, on Sunday, March 24, 2002. Johnson, a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter pilot with the 23rd Fighter Squadron, died March 20, 2002, in a plane crash while on routine night maneuvers. (AP Photo/Axel Seidemann)
God bless you abundantly, whoever you are...:)))
RANGER medics are among the most highly trained and competent in the military. Their skills in trauma care on the battlefield are without question.
But the injured ranger who hurts his knee on a jump onto an airfield doesn't need a medic -- he just gets up and drives on with the mission. Days, weeks and months later, his knee still bothers him. Rangers are the Army's premier special operations light-infantry force, trained in lightning strikes from the air, ground or water. Training to meet standards much higher than those for average soldiers can take an extreme toll on a ranger's body.
"We've realized two things in looking at our injury data," said COL Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of the 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Ga. "First, guys miss a lot of training. Second, we lose a lot of good rangers."
Introducing sports medicine, McChrystal hopes, will be the answer -- and the remedy -- to his rangers' athletic injuries.
A sports medicine program has been active in the regiment's 2nd Battalion at Fort Lewis since February 1998, and entered a nine-month test period in September. Statistics will be taken at all three of the regiment's battalions to test the program's effectiveness.
"One statistic we got from 3rd Bn. shows that 78 percent of the profiles and lost time we had in that battalion for a year were sports related, not sickness related," he said. Sports medicine is where CPT Daniel Norvell enters the picture. A physical therapist at Fort Lewis's Madigan Army Hospital, Norvell has set up shop at the 2nd Bn. physical fitness center along with Jim Davis, a Madigan physical therapy specialist who serves as the battalion strength and conditioning coach.
Norvell and Davis have been seeing rangers at their sports medicine clinic since February 1998. Instead of going to Madigan for physical therapy, rangers simply come to the clinic. Both McChrystal and Norvell agree that one of the most positive things the program provides is that it takes away the stigma of admitting injury.
"Rangers don't want to go on profile -- it's a psychological thing," McChrystal said. "They don't want to be viewed as being broken, and don't want to go across town to do physical therapy. It's not as convenient, and there's a certain stigma attached to it in their minds." Norvell and Davis understand how rangers train and what their mission is, giving them the ability to provide quality care to the battalion.
"Our goal is to try to intervene as quickly as possible when a ranger is injured, with the goal of getting that ranger back on the battlefield as quickly as possible, just like getting an athlete back on the playing field," said Norvell.
The sports medicine program, McChrystal said, sends the right message to his rangers. "We ask these guys to perform at a professional athlete level," McChrystal said, "and when you provide this kind of care and focus, it sends a message to the ranger that his body is very, very important to us."
-- U.S. Army Special Operations Command Public Affairs Office
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