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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So THATS why I wake up bruised.
Silly me.
I thought it was the aliens.
Nah. If it were aliens, your brain would have been replaced with mint jelly.
Mmmmm.
Lamb.
On the egg.
Gotta go.
Back soon.
Hmm I wonder if my great granddad was considered such in the early '30s. Of course, he was running from Elliot Ness, so probably didn't stop to worry about it.
LOL!
I suspect I had relatives on both sides of the border AND the law!
Mine too....
=``)``
My Dad was in the first Gulf War when I was very very young and I was sure he was just gonna die over there. He's retired now.
LOL! Only takes nine months to make them, but they can't post right away!
My oldest daughter was born just after the first Gulf War ended. All the medical staff had gone to Europe to set up for the expected scads of scads of casualties, and we thought there’d be nobody but the oral surgeon to deliver our babies!
Yeah... and like only a handful total died. More people die in the ERs around the country than die in the Iraq war each day.
The Gulf War was amazing for the lack of casualties. At the time, I worked for a life insurance that insures mostly military people, and the investors were in a panic at the projections of thousands of our military people dying.
We lost SIX insureds. Four were combat casualties (a couple in that missile attack on the barracks in Saudi Arabia), including a car accident and a heart attack.
I saw the COOLEST book, today:
http://www.godine.com/isbn.asp?isbn=0879234490
Written by Daniel Carter Beard, one of the founders of the Boy Scouts, you’d best grab ‘em up before the government finds out they’re in print, again. There’s stuff contained in these 468 pages that might help a boy learn to live independently from his government.
Looks great, good price. I’ll order it for Der Prinz and the extremely numerous Scouts.
Must go, the kitties are bickering again.
Several yeasrs ago, my dad and his wife attended a wedding in Chicago. Most of the guests were connected to FBI in some manner. He told me afterward, how comical it seemed. He kept wondering if their grandad’s chased his. {My ggd was living in Chicago when his brush with infamy began}
My kid sister and I were both active duty during the Gulf War. My uncle, a Navy vet from the early 60s, told me he was stunned at the low casualties. He said they "were likely to have more killed during peacetime exercises in his time than the whole war did." He may have exaggerated this a bit, but it's still significant.
Amazing!
Probably a little exaggerated, but if one troop transport of the 60’s era crashed, that’s a lot of casualties. Even today, collisions seem to kill as many troops as enemy action, which shouldn’t surprise us, considering how many people die in traffic accidents in civilian life!
chuckle.
Morning (or guten abend), all.
Got into Germany just fine, got to hotel thanks to TomTom Go (it looked like simple navigation but wasn´t), and am about to go get dinner whether or not colleagues show up. Hotel was really quiet until a few minutes ago then a ton of younger folks with huge suitcases started showing up. Not sure what´s up — maybe something at the conference center(s) across the highway?
Internet from the room is really expensive here, so I probably won´t be on much. (It´s free but limited in the business center.)
So, Happy Thanksgiving, fanfan! (My poor Canadian colleague is enroute by now; I lost the weekend, he lost the holiday.)
And later, all!
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