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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Tallulah Barkwoof.
PC's need to share a common "language" or set of codes for these symbols so that you see the same thing when you read my message as I see when I type it.
The computer translates my keystrokes into these codes, and then your computer translates the codes back into symbols. The "code book" that we share is called the ASCII Codes (or extended ASCII codes)
0 - 32 = control codes like Tab, Linefeed, Carriage Return, etc
32 = a space, like when you press the spacebar key
33 = !
34 = "
35 = #
36 = $
37 = %
38 = &
39 = '
40 = (
41 = )
42 = *
43 = +
44 = ,
45 = -
46 = .
47 = /
48 - 57 = 0123456789 (grouped these for clarity, and brevity)
58 = :
59 = ;
60 = <
61 = =
62 = >
63 = ?
64 = @
65 - 90 = ABC...XYZ (grouped these for clarity, and brevity)
91 - 96 = [\]^_`
97 - 122 = abc...yz (grouped these for clarity, and brevity)
etc.
Normally you don't really care what the code is for a letter because the computer handles this when you press the key. SOmetimes, however, you would like to type a symbol that doesn't show up on your keyboard. When this happens, you can enter the ASCII code for the symbol by pressing the [Alt] key while typing in the ASCII code for the symbol.
Try pressing the [Alt] key while entering anything between 179 and about 210. People used to draw stuff on text screens using these symbols.
Have fun!
We may need to talk about this more tomorrow.
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